Access your whole being with Forrest Yoga
January 25, 2009 by yogatry
Filed under What's New, featured
Rebecca Perry, Owner and Master teacher of Yogatry is happy to announce her new certification as a Forrest Yoga instructor!
Forest Yoga is an innovative yoga that allows you to not only gain strength in your physical body, but to access emotion and spiritual clarity in your whole life. Forrest Yoga is truly a ‘whole-life’ yoga as it offers a sacred space for healing within the yoga practice itself. Most yoga available today does work to support the whole person, but much of the styles available do this in a round-about way, focusing mainly on the physical – leaving it up to the practitioner to make the connections to the rest of their life. Forrest Yoga is different. By offering tools within the practice itself – such as responding authentically and finding delight – the yogi is set free to be the person they were meant to be and avoid feeling inferior to the poses themselves.
To find out more about Forrest Yoga visit the website: www.forrestyoga.com
Meditation
Meditation practices don’t have to be complex, in fact the simplest technique can give the best results. Take Ohm-ing for example. Sitting in a comfortable seated position, closing your eyes and repeating the mantra ‘OM’ (pronounced as O-H-M) can be an amazing way to tune out unwanted thoughts and bring you into a still, centered space inside. Set your timer for say, 5 minutes to begin, so you don’t keep opening your eyes to see how long you’ve been at it. Then settle into your position, straighten your spine and begin.
The sound O-H-M comes from the three parts of your body that can make sound. The ‘O’ comes from deep in your belly. The ‘H’ comes from in your throat, and the ‘M’ sound is the mouth. Try it! You can feel the sound moving from the gut to the pallet. OM is Sanskrit and is thought to be the sound of creation – the first sound made when the Universe was formed. Now that’s a powerful mantra! A mantra, when intoned, also creates a specific pattern -if measured in a laboratory – called a yantra. The pattern created with the OM sound is called the Sri Yantra. The Sri Yantra is a combination of upward triangles overlapped by downward pointing triangles numbering 9 in total. This is thought to represent the balance of masculine and feminine energy. An extremely potent design in the world of sacred geometry.
So, try a simple ‘OM’ meditation. Even if you don’t completely understand the dynamics of this technique, Ohm-ing 5 minutes a day is sure to reduce stress and enhance your daily activities and interactions!
Welcome Ohm!
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