Start my way
I began three conventional works but none convinced me to speak again of what is already written and in the end I decided to write about my experience and how I have known yoga. I came to India with the idea that yoga was an exercise that took care of your body making it more flexible and strong and that helps you relax the mind and I would teach myself to meditate better but I found that yoga is not a class that becomes one or twice a week, yoga is a lifestyle that takes you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Pranayama
Yoga teaches us to control breathe by increasing the lung capacity that we learn to correct correctly and so we do not use unnecessary muscles that produce tensions or contractures, massage our bodies causing the systems to activate and function better while the Pranayama classes, activates the energy channels and leads to a control over the mind and body. A conscious breath guided towards a part of the body causes oxygen to reach our muscles and cells better.
Yoga teaches us to lead a quiet and simple life without ambiguous and with Consistency and controlled.
Meditation
The meditation is a slow and constant path that must accompany the rest of your life, at first it seems impossible to tell your mind tie to a point I was laughing my mind was so fast that I saw it difficult to tie it to only 100 points. But gone understanding that you must start entering your attention in the body by crossing each part with the mind and making it quiet and calm take the attention of the pain your head says there are knees and I cannot be straight when it is finished and suddenly one day your body stops being important and you can hear your breathing and the beat of your heart, again a barrier if you try to control the breathing by force this chokes you but also comes to know that your breath is simple that you feel it to enter and leave the body without judging it, the cold when entering and the heat when leaving, the diaphragm opening path and pushing your organs although it is not the end because this would be that your inhalation and your exhalation are one but for now we will conform and then you go to the next level for you is Dharana theory binds the mind to a single site and blocks the process of consciousness responsible for fluctuations in your mind. Well but the reality that you focus on one point and your mind thinks about it and goes to another and returns and leaves but now some days for a few minutes my mind sees that point clear and my conscience does not intervene and only would be in Dhyana although we would only enter a state that does not interrupt that concentration.
My path in meditation is beginning for 10 years I thought that meditation was to sit an hour without talking trying to focus on nothingness. The philosophers say that a day will come that if your consistency does not cease you will withdraw your own awareness of the object merging with it.
Nutrition
Food is an important part of where I come food is a vice, a passion, a sin we live to eat all day, yoga tells us that we are what we eat, you must nourish yourself with simple food without fats, sugars, or anything of destiny animal. The truth is that I complaint and joke with my colleagues about food but after all I have the good fortune to have three meals a day that feed and nourish me. When I go back to Spain, I will try to eat a simple vegetarian diet because my body is now strong and I feel good. I eat only to live and not the other way around.
Asanas
In this way I have known and I have been fortunate to meet people who have contributed a lot of friendship and although yoga promotes detachment for me it has been difficult to say goodbye to them because we have learned together and for have been my family the only thing I had and I have here.
Teachers I have had the privilege of accompanying me in my teaching. In my life I have had many teachers and over the years I have learned that every person who goes through your life does it for something and that you can all learn. Each teacher or person gives you what you can and what you need and vice-versa.
The first yoga teacher here was Mukesh his first class was very special because I came with a lot of fear people tell you Ufff… India alone will not steal you, it’s dirty, you’ll be raped … it’s amazing what people can say about something they do not know for me India and their people have respected me and opened their arms I felt at home but the first two days came a thousand emotions and fears and the yoga class calm everything suddenly stop thinking about everything only the class was ON. I’ve been playing with India for 15 years trying to gather money and courage to come and when I step on this floor for the first time I knew it was where I should be. I feel comfortable practicing yoga every day and gone fear, stress, obligations, wanting more … I have fallen in love with yoga deeply HATHA YOGA is a slow and gentle way to know the asanas and Pranayama. It focuses on simple postures giving you time to assimilate each posture. It is a practice that requires a lot of strength and resistance as the asanas are prolonged giving way to balance and strength. Ha means sun and Tha is male and female moon means union, the interplay of opposites. It consists of the following elements:
Postures………………. Asana
Cleaning Practices….. ShatKriya
Breathing control…… Pranayama
Locks……………….…. Bandhas
Gestures by hand……. Mudras
For me it is a simple type of yoga that everyone can practice, it has helped me to know the asanas better and to feel the limits of my body, to listen to it with attention, to catch me in the breath. It is the basis of all other styles of yoga. The different schools have different ways of defining it some think that the physical purification causes a mental purification and others that the mental purification brings the control of the body.
I am not going to enter there for me I do not know that is the first thing but one thing leads to the other and vice versa.
Mukesh also taught us internal cleaning technique I only practiced neti because the others still cause me respect and I have not been able to do them. The nasal cleaning or neti that already splendid in the first project is simple and comfortable to do only need 10 min in the morning when you are still fasting. You fill your neti pot with warm water and salt and introduce it through a nostril closing the mouth and tilting the water at first the water goes to the throat but in two days you learn to go free through the other nostril, then you will practice Kapalbhati which is a practice of Pranayama inhales soft and exhalation with force. Personally it has helped me because in Spain I suffer from allergy and I have constantly blocked my nose which causes me to migrate and since I am in India this does not happen which is wonderful because I do not have to medicate or support migraines that wring me in pain. I think it can help move people with respiratory or neuronal pathologies.
The second form of giving or receiving in this case yoga was with Praveen and was so different ASHTANGA VINYASA is strength, speed, end of asana. The class I liked a lot but the stretches are much stealthier and the balance is more difficult when you accelerate the asana.
Sequence of asanas synchronized with the breath each movement takes its concrete breath and always in the same order. The Ashtanga is a continuous movement between one asana and another as opposed to the Hatha that stops in each asana without flowing in them. It is for people with a physical form and without major injuries, activates our cardio and energy.
ASHTANGA VINYASA: the flow of continuous and concrete breathing in each asana. It verifies an internal cleansing and creates heat by moving the toxins from the blood and making this finer so that it flows better.
It has three focus points: Breathe pattern; inhalation and exhalation should have the same longetivity. You must use the three energy closures or bandhas Mula bandha, Uddiyana bandha and Mahan bandha.
Mula bandha for me is easy to understand because I work every day with the pelvic floor that in Pilates you have to activate in each effort and with the pregnant women, that’s why for the experience, how important it is and how difficult it is to control. Make your organs not letting them fall away over time, improving urine retention and reproductive function.
Uddiyana bandha is easier to understand because it is a contact of the stomach inwards and upwards but more difficult to maintain in the asanas since you must close your ribs thus protect your lumbars.
Mahan bandha to me is difficult because you must close the pharynx and at first it hurts me now I am holding more. Your chin should go up then back and place it in front closing the hollow of the clavicles.
Dhristi: nine places to focus your attention
-nose
-frown
-belly button
-thumb
-hands
-feet
-Above the body
-Right side and left side
The posture through the asana purifies and hardens the body.
The scriptures say that the heat of this practice burns the six poisons
-Karma (desire)
-Krodha (anger)
-Moha (mistake)
-Lobha (greed)
-Matsarya (envy)
-Made (laziness)
Personally I am fascinated with this style and I want to know more about it. I feel alive when I practice this style and my energy is renewed. Bhawna for me was very special although I could not say it for the language my first month was more difficult now I understand much more. Their class taught me that yoga is not just asanas and prana. That you do not have to reach all the asanas, nor make them perfect you have to feel yourself through it. We teach Pranayama practices and practice each of them. I especially like Suryabheda is a practice that activates the energy in body and mind. For each practice of Pranayama you must acquire a healthy and comfortable posture with straight back and shoulders placed back and down to let the air get better between your bodies and connect with the earth and the divine. In this practice you should inhale through the right nostril and exhale on the left causing a small sound in the throat. Purifies and also destroys intestinal worms. I remember that in our first class of yog Nidra time was long because I could not relax but now it is a practice that brings me peace and that makes my energies renew. It made us understands that yoga Nidra is not sleeping is a conscious state of the body in which you focus your attention on it and then remove it.
As a person I felt clothed and protected by her but I could not tell her besides I could not find out the history of this school I did not understand anything for the language but her sadness came and her love towards her made her different.
Mantra
We have also done mantra class with Mr. Mukesh, Praveen and Konty it was impossible to pronounce well for me I believe they are magical and they move the energy in your being and around. The feeling of listening to the mantras in the temples that resonate in my head and I can feel the vibration that occurs the flow of energy among the people who are there. When the first days we opened the class with the mantra Om for me it was only a sound they had to spend every few months to feel the vibration of this sound and understand that makes me focus on the class and join my partners. Om symbolizes the divine Brahma and the entire universe. It is the beginning of most mantras. It means unity with the supreme.
AUM
A is located in Mooladhara, Swadhisthana and Manipura
U is located in Anahata and Vishuddhi
M Ajna and Sahasrara
The name mantra comes from the mind (man) and protection or instrument (tra). Mantras are resources to protect our minds from in productive thoughts. They are a point of concentration that helps us to meditate or focus on the class.
It helps me to put my mind inside the class and its vibration relaxes me.
The first month in India was wonderful because my partners and I were very united and I was busy with the classes because there was never competition or envy we only helped and we enjoyed learning yoga. I liked mantra classes because it helps me to feel in unity with them.
Chakras
In this course we have worked the chakras but I am very interested in what related to them in Spain I have gone some course of chakras but here I do not know if the prolonged practice of yoga, the relaxation that I feel in this place, the peace that I did not have since the 17 years or I never tube but the first week I noticed how my second chakra opened and I felt again the desire to create to return to dance that is my passion and leave for fear of criticism, projects that wake up and penalties they leave.
- Sahasrara-white-crown-connection with the universe with the divine-space-silence element.
- Ajna-violet-brow-intuition, inspiration, memory-element light-sound Om
- Vishuddhi-blue-throat-communication-element ether-sound ham
- Anahata-green-love towards others and towards all things-element air-sound yam
- Manipura-yellow-fears, future vision, create, destroy-element fire-sound Ram
- Swadhisthana-orange-creativity, sexuality, sociability-water-sound element van
- Mooladhara-red-earth, the basics, feed and survive-earth-sound element lam
Through them they pass through our three energy channels through which the prana circulates:
- Ida: moon-our nostril left-begins on the left side of the sacrum.
- Pingala: sun-our nostril right-begins on the right side of the sacrum.
- Sushumna: it is in the center. It’s natural.
So written is how you read it and teach it to us but the important thing is to be able to feel it through the meditation and to be able to balance it. Know when a channel is closed or too open or too tight to balance it.
Through my companions I have understood that although with the same guidelines there are many ways to understand yoga and to practice it. There are people who want to reach the final positions thinking that they exist without stopping to enjoy the veneers of teaching although I think we all sin a little of that because it makes you feel good when you can do a posture or when you get further in the limits of your body. There are strong people who achieve positions that require balance and a lot of strength and other elastics that do not have limits in their stretches and people who still cannot perform the postures.
But that is yoga practice leads you to improve and feel the veneers that yoga brings to your body to release you from the burden of stress. I am useful as a student to stop my impulses to want to reach the limit without forgetting that I have a goal. As a teacher to know that each student needs a different attention and that you can help with objects like blocks, rubbers … but also with love and dedication. Students should have a healthy and comfortable pose that allows them to enjoy the variations and your mission as a teacher is to guide them to make it possible. Everyone can practice yoga in one way or another.
I almost never envy myself to enjoy what others know or rejoice for what they have but here I have felt completely released from it. Yoga is not a competition, although I will surely meet people who want to do it.
Anatomy
For me the theoretical classes are difficult for the language although the anatomy I like and I studied it for my classes in Spain it is necessary to know the mechanism of the body towards where you must work that muscles are antagonistic or how to stretch them if a student is hurt. I have seen that most students will not be fit or healthy and that you need to know the different pathologies what they entail and what you can and do not do in class with that person. Important that you are going to involve each muscle to know which parts to warm up and which muscular chain you want to work in each class to be able to move from one asana to another that stretches the area worked and that brings balance you must think your classes and not put a of another why yes. Over time make your own guide to help you carry a smooth and coherent class that takes the student to full attention in his own person and move the energy in one direction. For me the most difficult is to perform a correct breathing and do the closing or bandhas in each asana but I guess the practice makes the teacher. For me, yoga is beautiful to do with seeing and feeling.
Konty has taught us that the classification of asanas is simpler than it seems. A single asana can have many variations on the direction of the legs and arms, different closures or bandhas, the options will make your students understand the asana better and where they are more comfortable making an easy class. One objective per class.
For me the most difficult and most difficult to maintain is the simplest sit:
Sukhasana
Sit on the legs with your legs crossed in front of you. In this series of asanas not to repeat you must have the spine straight and raised from the crown respecting the natural curves of this, the chin in the center neither up nor down, the shoulders back and down forming a v with the shoulder blades but you can vary the position of your legs or mudras.
Ardha Padmasana
Half lotus. One leg underneath and the other foot resting on the groin with the big toe on the iliac crest and the sole upwards.
Padmasana
The two feet in the hip as usual h explained in the previous one making a frame with the heels for the pubis.
Siddhasana (for men) and Siddha yoni asana (for women)
One foot is closed in the perineum and the other above this in the pubis inserting the fingers in the gap that leave the twin with the hamstrings. For me this asana is very comfortable and makes me feel good.
Swastikasana
Feet crossed without touching the perineum.
Dhyana
Right leg crossed under the left causing the feet to be crossed to their opposite side and next to the hip.
Mudra
For the anterior asanas or jnana mudra that invite to the meditation. Gestures of the hands that possess different and specific qualities. There are 24 main mudras.
First finger -fire
Index -air
Middle-aakash
Ring-off
Small -water
Bhairava mudra for me is special I feel as if my being will connect with the same and I do not think in the external. It is a Sanskrit word that represents current attitude. Place one hand over the other, bringing the fat fingers together with the palms facing upwards and reposing in the lower abdomen. Known as Shiva or Shakti mudra a form of Shiva formidable and fearsome. It brings us strength and power.
Over two months I have been able to practice yoga every day and sometimes I felt that I wanted to give up because my body hurt because emotions overwhelmed me, drowning with Pranayama because I could not concentrate on the respiration. Feeling enclosed in my body in meditations but my body feels good and my mind is calm. In my life I have had to go through hard things I guess I have chosen to work in this life because I want to solve my karma and in the last two years I have lost important family members for me and I almost lost my father, my house, my partner, my projects before coming to India I think is my dream but if I go without savings and I cannot look for work in summer but I risk and decided to spend everything to come. I feel that you do not want to continue living and feel ugly every day but this experience is has changed now I feel a beautiful and strong woman able to overcome anything, I thank every day that I live and the gifts that the universe gives me, I thank every person that has crossed my life because it has helped me to make my way. Yoga has made me see that there is no such important and that can take your peace you should see the world as a beautiful place and that life are only experiences, if you see it as a challenge will be difficult but if you see it as an adventure all the experiences will make you stronger.
For me the asanas are an extension of the breath that makes you see that your body has no limits that has infinite possibilities because only your mind can stop you, that the mind has no limits because your being has power over it and that I always I am the same that energy that never dies and that never alters only my body, my mind and play different roles (rage, passion, sadness …) characters that will come and go.
I do not think that I can get my body to be a gum, to join my inhalation with my exhalation or as Patanjali said to unite my being with the object of concentration and to be able to read other people’s minds but I think I will be more awake and I will feel pain, joy but I did not import because I know that it is temporary.
I hope to become a good teacher who knows how to guide other people to what I am experiencing. I think we should just be awake and aware. I do not want goals that make me live in a future that does not exist just accept what comes and live here and now.
Yoga has made me see that there is no such important and that can take your peace you should see the world as a beautiful place and that life are only experiences, if you see it as a challenge will be difficult but if you see it as an adventure all the experiences will make you stronger.
For me the asanas are an extension of the breath that makes you see that your body has no limits that has infinite possibilities because only your mind can stop you, that the mind has no limits because your being has power over it and that I always I am the same that energy that never dies and that never alters only my body, my mind and play different roles (rage, passion, sadness …) characters that will come and go.
I do not think that I can get my body to be a gum, to join my inhalation with my exhalation or as Patanjali said to unite my being with the object of concentration and to be able to read other people’s minds but I think I will be more awake and I will feel pain, joy but I did not important because I know that it is temporary.
I hope to become a good teacher who knows how to guide other people to what I am experiencing. I think we should just be awake and aware. I do not want goals that make me live in a future that does not exist just accept what comes and live here and now.
!! Thank You !!