The yogic texts talk a lot about quieting the mind. The purpose of this class together was to experiment with what actually takes place when we try to do that. The experiment was set up with some questions and dialog:
Yoga Chitta Vrittis Niradahah Yoga Sutra 1.2 and Hyrdya Chitta Samvrittes (in the 3rd chapter)
What does the heart want? Some of the answers were love, oxygen, blood, breath, relaxation,
What does addiction do? Some of the answers were isolate, disconnect, increase rate, decrease heart rate,
We had a discussion (and buy-in) that yogis suggest the heart wants to connect and saw that one reason addiction is so painful is because it is a great source of disconnection.
Some movements to prepare the body:
seated cat and cow
shoulder shrugs
neck rolls
coat hanger arms
seated uttithatadasana with ujaii breath
breath in belly
breath in heart
experiment look from belly
experiment look from heart
repeat
write out results: found that from the belly was more tender, softer, less judgemental
discussion about a lot of recovery being 'heady' and 'theory bound' and offering the possiblity of letting the body be a great source. Theory of pulling the prana away from the head and into the body to notice we are already connected. We don't have to go up and out of ourselves: it is already so.
reminder presentation about the ANS
Homework: 1. look from the belly, and 2. breathe.
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