Why Relaxation Is the Hardest Pose In All Of Yoga

You know how your yoga teacher is always banging on about savasana?

And how it's the hardest pose of all. But they never explain why. Here's why...

Advanced asana is about flexibility and strength. It takes both, to hold an advanced pose.

All that flexibility and strength, enables you to position your body, for the maximum openness (a.k.a. advance asana).

Ummm...think about it this way...all stretches have a contraction and an extension. Opposite muscle groups etc.

So all the asanas involve some contraction. Muscles build strength when they contract. Therefore, all asana builds strength.

Well, what if there was an opposite, negative energy, that balanced all that strength?

And, what if there was just one pose that you could do. That could counter all the positive energy poses in a whole class?

Well, - and you know where this is going - there is!

'Cause there's only one pose where every muscle is relaxed, and none of them are working.

Yep, Savasna.

Now, there's two ways to think of savasna:

One: You store more energy in your body, as class progresses. In savasana, the energy dissipates to earth.

Two: You deplete more energy in your body, as class progresses. In savasana, the you are recharged from the earth.

Half empty, or half full? J