Comments on: Eight Limbs Of Yoga- 3 Asana http://www.lifedivine.net/main/eight-limbs-of-yoga-3-asana/ Consciousness Evolving - how to integrate spirituality and personal development into everyday transformation and living. Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:50:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ray Baskerville http://www.lifedivine.net/main/eight-limbs-of-yoga-3-asana/comment-page-1/#comment-1455 Ray Baskerville Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:09:34 +0000 http://lifedivine.net/?p=17#comment-1455 Thanks for your comment, I'm glad you enjoyed the series on the 8 limbs of yoga. To answer you question: When i spoke of 'awareness' I wasn't saying it was awareness of the blood and prana moving but how in asana "we open the body to allow awareness to travel into the subconscious to bring into the light conscious awareness what is there." So it is a deepening self awareness that I am speaking of. When we use asana to open the body we are opening into our subconscious, and in the discipline of the application of the eight limbs we heal transform and unify. I hope this makes it clearer. Blessings Ray Thanks for your comment, I’m glad you enjoyed the series on the 8 limbs of yoga.

To answer you question: When i spoke of ‘awareness’ I wasn’t saying it was awareness of the blood and prana moving but how in asana “we open the body to allow awareness to travel into the subconscious to bring into the light conscious awareness what is there.”

So it is a deepening self awareness that I am speaking of. When we use asana to open the body we are opening into our subconscious, and in the discipline of the application of the eight limbs we heal transform and unify.

I hope this makes it clearer.
Blessings
Ray

]]> By: drgroove http://www.lifedivine.net/main/eight-limbs-of-yoga-3-asana/comment-page-1/#comment-1454 drgroove Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:44:51 +0000 http://lifedivine.net/?p=17#comment-1454 Hi. I like the way that you connect the dots through the explanation of the yoga Union and relationship to the 8 limbs being interwoven within each other. There seems to be a leap / gap in you explanation when you state; "When we perform asanas we create a process of ‘opening’ the body. This opening allows flows of blood, lymph and subtler energies of prana and awareness. It is this awareness aspect that makes asana a spiritual practice and not just exercise. " Can you explain a bit more how awareness of flows of blood and energy makes asana a spiritual practice? I experience many folks who are very aware of intricate physical and energetic forces within themselves that have little to no spiritual elements of awareness. Hi. I like the way that you connect the dots through the explanation of the yoga Union and relationship to the 8 limbs being interwoven within each other. There seems to be a leap / gap in you explanation when you state;

“When we perform asanas we create a process of ‘opening’ the body. This opening allows flows of blood, lymph and subtler energies of prana and awareness. It is this awareness aspect that makes asana a spiritual practice and not just exercise. ”

Can you explain a bit more how awareness of flows of blood and energy makes asana a spiritual practice?

I experience many folks who are very aware of intricate physical and energetic forces within themselves that have little to no spiritual elements of awareness.

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