We soon begin to realise that we have very little control of the events in our external world. But we can learn to manage our response to them with more sensitivity, developing healthy coping strategies.

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Stretching for the sake of it, gets us nowhere, but the rediscovery of our full range and repertoire of movement, is much more useful. It’s the expanded and comfortable repetition of movement, that changes things.

Our practice should consider sensation to be primary, and shape to be secondary, which is often not the case. If this criteria is met, we physically demand less from the body, and give more back to it. Greatly improving how well we feel.

Most people don't sit on stillness, due to restlessness. By fully inhabiting experience, we notice when restlessness arises, and we can meet it without over reaching in to unnecessary drama.

A point of reference
Along with setting a clear intention, establishing a point of reference, supports our ability to notice any shifts within our quality of experience. 

A Yoga experience, is a consequence, not a prescription. Modern Yoga often focuses on prescribing a standardised shape, rather than setting clear intentions, and inviting the practitioner in to their own personal experience, where everything falls in to place.

The proof is in the practice, but the science based evidence suggests, we are on the right track.
So, when you cultivate a regular practice, it’s hard to argue with that evidence.

If we focus solely on the shapes, we give little attention to how we actually feel throughout a practice, creating unnecessary suffering, or even injury.
Allow the feeling to determine the shape.
 

Cultivating ‘Sthira Sukham Asanam’ or steadiness and ease, has long been elusive within the Hatha Yoga tradition. However, if we understand the building blocks, these qualities are relatively simple to reveal.