Sunday 12 June 2016

Yogis Don't Smile

You want a neutral face when practicing.

Not happy. No grimace either.

You don't want to register any emotions on your face. Totally neutral.

This is because any emotion on the face is just that, an emotion.

An emotion is the result of conscious thought. Therefore.

You need to be thinking, to be feeling an emotion.

You don't want to be thinking when practicing. You want to breathe and focus. That's it.

No thinking. No emotion. No facial expression.

CU in class, J.

P.S. The time to actually control your facial expressions is when you fall out of a pose.

Don't laugh.

Don't cry.

Fall.

No emotion.

Get back in.

The great thing about not registering an emotion when you fall out of a pose, is that you don't lose your yogic calm.

This means you don't have to both regain the pose and the composure.

Just one thing to work on. Efficient :-)

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