Tag: hatha
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Opposites Meet
Yoga is the space where opposites meet…inhale and exhale, holding and letting go, offering and receiving. It is the time when we practice harmonizing opposites…integration and expansion, steadiness and ease, focus and release.
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Boundaries
When we practice hatha yoga postures we engage our muscles to create specific forms within which we then expand and stretch. In other words the actions of our muscles offer boundaries against which we then expand and stretch. Without the pliable resistance of these boundaries, our stretches would be overly casual and floppy and our expansion…
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Linear vs. Cyclical Experiences
When a basil plant reaches its flowering stage it displays the beauty of the flowers as the pinnacle of its growth. It also begins to slowly die. On the other hand, when the plant’s stems are cut with at least a couple lower leaves intact, the plant continues to grow and thrive and produce it’s delicious edible leaves.…
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Balancing ‘Ha’ and ‘Tha’
I have been reading a book written by my good friend Irene, which you can see in this photograph and which you can learn more about here. She explores how we have become disconnected from our essential nature as humans, how our current cultural context blinds us and causes us to forget our essential nature, and…
Roxoliana Prus RMT 