Maintaining a home practice

Maintaining a home practice
br p "what is a home of practice?" My friend from Portugal Suzi wrote their irony is lost in the faceless ness of typewritten page. "Well, I guess I could say that my children are my yoga make as is my husband, dogs, or beds, wash dishes or..." / p but he is of course most our households with yoga in the middle of life is only about behind the World Cruises and a fleet of sports car in the lottery win this fantasy? In fact, for most of us are not kids of Yoga feeds, make beds, go back to school on Monday, pay bills... / p "Children", Suzi, still a sense of relief in their words. "And so I can my thoughts back in order."/p and that is, if struck me - what are to the Yoga thing if it only works if we are free at the time and space, enter into force? Who should know the wonders of yoga, I wonder that busy people - if they conform an indifferent world or withdrawal monk to one hour after the day after the best month to enjoy Indian philosophy? And if Yoga works for those who strict time to one and long-term behavior to follow, it's good for you or me in our everyday lives?/p and yet how useful this is Yoga was my first thought after my first yoga class. How strange, I thought I could in a classroom of full total strangers, yet relaxed enough to sleep. In fact, Yoga what!/p skip forward a few months and I classes enjoyed, there was something about the limitation of fixed times and places, the recruitment of teachers. Somewhat slower pace of the classes of necessity focused on slowest learners, and (in turn zwangsläu)(fig) is missing in the philosophical structure which now know I to true yoga. All in all, what is not quite right./p at this moment the only good is better "attitude was strong in me, and I tried (without success) to more lessons per week are in desperate need for"more"; to find my flight." But gradually came the realization that no longer what I needed, but smaller - the same, in months (sometimes years), and more from something else. You smaller, more me... / p I took my first tentative steps towards a practical home very early, after a few weeks of classes, as my first Yoga video received as a gift. But if a child was shaken to vulnerabilities and tripping over six months to find their feet in any way. Already then (and now) the crashes often, minimum standard at social events or the most mundane work requires an unprecedented devastation wreaked havoc on my good intentions. Can that really be what had Patanjali in mind?/p but some of Suzi words seemed click Connect in the Sutra of Patanjali's best work. In fact, the first words - ATHA./p now./p not tomorrow, not next week. Not if the children back to school, or if the role to facilitate and make your home before dark hours./p NOW!/p yoga can no other time, it must begin now with your intent, the practice. Easy for me to say when I sit at the keyboard writing impossible ideals and goals of people I don't even know! Or not? Where in the Yoga Sutra s not that Patanjali yoga, a class of ninety minutes Asana s? Or an hour? Or half an hour? Has he also write that we have a minute to Yoga to widmen have?/p this fallacy we need a block is apart from the time in second place at the prevailing misconception that Yoga Asana right. Together they form a lethal combination. You are so at home, barking dogs, screaming kids and tearing at the dinner on the stove burns - the moment is about as much use as a chocolate teapot an hour Asana practice. But can save sixty seconds? Or thirty? Close your eyes (oh yeah, better to turn off the kitchen first!) Breathe deeply and give a step closer to peace. Feel better? Of course. Was Yoga it? It is safe./p but what can we do to maximize the chance of a normal if not everyday? First I think taking a good long look to your environment, your needs and yoga, an excellent starting point. This is a big part of what calls Patanjali Svadhyaya or self-study, one of the three essential elements of Kriya Yoga (yoga of fact.) And which themselves ask first question, what you hope reach of Yoga?/p discover your intention is largely a very important preparation for the practice, because it determined, what they do and how you do. If your needs are spiritual, dynamic Asana-based solutions are unlikely that help you – on the contrary if you probably not your expectations in yoga as a means of physical therapy, a practice which is singing and prayer to search./p the next step is to check how your life can change to achieve these goals./p "with a yoga room helps me," says Suzanne, other girlfriend and a yoga teacher from North Carolina. "I have back my yoga room it makes a"en huge difference. My son is still on and off, so there is still some his stuff, but with a very clear and clean area is beautiful and engaging. "/" "P your"Achilles 'heel"can vary greatly - for me I know that the key to a common methodology is a good night's sleep." A night owl at heart, I want to stay long, but I know if I am, I am less inclined to do this practice in the morning before work to get. Some late nights a cumulative effect, and it will be a success for me, one will consider the "downward spiral to break", much greater effort to me on the mat. But how can we call that the first attempt?/p A story by thinking a house through my work, where old experienced veterans try, the next group of young whippersnappers, how it is to get the job get. If they sit in expectation that forms in a circle and make a burning candle in the middle./p "now I want you all close your eyes and think and concentrate on turning off the lights with your thoughts." "A few looks suspicious, the eyes are closed and master students in their faces light fire."/p "Open your eyes", he says, but when she do the light is still on. "Try again, but this time I have really want that you to blow out the candle image." Repeat. The light burns in the eyes open./p shook his head, this dinosaur steps in the middle of the circle, leaked snuff thumb and index finger, then the flame./p "Not think!" Do it! "/" P although it can prepare for success;plan in the world are never at a step closer put out the light. What you need is tapas - often as burning, described self discipline and rigor - be matte to your place. This discipline seems loved to watch the latest cinema blockbuster victim or a warm bed at one with a cold winter's morning or a few minutes with a start. Is this where the element of Kriya Yoga begins to interact - how much goal Svadhyaya revealed, want to reach? Enough to the fourth victim in bed? Enough to not miss beautiful film (and associated snacks)? Only you can decide, but without discipline, you every time, if you give candles your eyes./p you have so thought (and boy did it hurt) and demanded to take on the mat. But when the phone rings and your boss needs distract you immediately at the work, or a friend found has a crisis to you from your way. Can Patanjali definitely not here?/p here comes the third part is run to the rescue - Pranidhana Ishvara or surrender to God. And this is where much of Yogi go from noise door as the threat of theology looms in their favourite pastime. But far from a certain ideals, I see the practical application of this tradition as a simple acceptance - acceptance, that sometimes (often), we find ourselves in a river is not our choice, and we must sink or swim along with the stream./p "the crisis is my guru, says David (Yes, you guessed it, another friend), to teach in Utah."/p only five words, but I knew what he meant. In addition to the asanas and pranayama, meditation, and then sing, yoga is much more to learn. A practice is a much larger gift than the boring half hour and often seems still verstästrengthens when Swami random is spirit under control. The trick is, is away to identify the control to accept it, wait and see. Sooner or later, cut free Swami and again it's time to hand out the tapas!/p