- Practice with structure example.. beginning intention …presence…mantra ..breatwork… start slow…find peak… integration…cool down.. rest… breathwork… meditation
2.. never stop practicing on and off the mat
- Breath into your body
- Breath option… breath in squeeze or contract muscle groups, exhale relax
- Breath option… breath as you pull energy like a riplle from the feet through spine up into head, exhale relax let the energy drain down
- Practice for the better of all beings
- Utilize facial expression and eye movement …tunnel vision for focus and peripheral vision for relaxation
- Always always rest totally after practice
- Practice with different body systems … muscles, bones…energetically
- Practice fasted or with minimal food in body system for best results
- Alkalize the body.. perhaps with raw apple cidar vinager or urine
- Practice new ways ….but to best learn a method.. stick with it for a period till you understand its uniqueness on a cellular level
- Embody the teachings of yoga beyond the physical practice
- Don’t simply practice asana… ethical behaviour, breathwork, sense withdrawal, meditation, trance etc
- Learn from masters
- Practice mantra… to invoke, to pray, to heal
- Practice the 3 primary breathing bandhas
- Foot lock and hand lock bandhas too
- Get familiar with your internal energy… pelvis floor, organ spaces and chi
- Always continue to develop greater discipline
- Read ancient texts
- Sanskrit cultures the nervous system… sanskrit mantras are powerful technologies
- Your practice is not be compared with others
- Gain an innerstanding of your chakras beyond intellectual knowledge
- Learn tantric sexual cultivation
- Yoga is about union, all other aims are inferior
- Be total when you practice
- Encourage others
- Have faith
- Practice with love