Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of awareness - Concentration

What does it feel like when our mind focuses on just one thing?

Exploring the range of awareness by focusing our mind on a single object of concentration. When we try to concentrate on a single thing, most of us find that our minds are easily distracted. This exercise strengthens our ability to concentrate. This ability only becomes stronger if we keep returning to our chosen focus. What would happen if you tried this practice for a few days? What would you notice? Would it become easier to focus? 

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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Rango foawareness and experiences

What happens when you explore your Range of Awareness?

Most of us find that developing our sensitivity to natural processes enriches our experiences. in yoga, we try to expand our awareness so that we can participate in our lives consciously and intentionally. We experience the world through our senses, and our mind makes sense of the sensory information it receives by using its archive of knowledge, misconceptions, imagination, memories, and dreams. Applying the idea of Range of Awareness to our yoga practice enriches every aspect of our yoga practice while teaching us that awareness is the foundation of our existence. 

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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Complaining

Do you ever complain? What do you complain about?

Is it possible to modulate your complaining? Are our complaints a way to release a build-up of tension and irritation? Or is our complaining an expression of frustration because our expectations do not match the situation we find ourselves in? The first path is a very practical way of turning complaints into action. The second way to act is to see if our complaints are enabling us to improve the quality of our contribution to the moment we are in. Imagine what would happen if all complaints were turned into uplifting actions…

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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Changing direction - Uplift

Practicing pratipaksha bhavana in our lives

A simple and effective way to turn unhelpful tendencies around. Notice the tendencies and replace them with life affirming and uplifting tendencies. Would it be possible that cultivating an uplifting attitude makes us feel happy and radiant?
Are you curious to experience what happens when you immerse yourself in the practice of Pratipaksha Bhavana? 

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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Exploring resistance

What do you resist?

Resistance tends to arise at the boundaries between pain and tolerable discomfort. How does resistance manifest itself in you? What can we do when we feel resistance? Is our resistance a way of defending our sense of self? Is it possible that our resistance is a sign that we are trying to hold on too tightly to a belief or self-concept?

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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of Awareness in Ashtanga Yoga

Can Range of Awareness be the integrating element of all the limbs of yoga?

What happens when we explore the possible options available to us in the Yamas, Niyamas, Asana, Pratipaksha Bhavana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi? Can the idea of Range of Awareness help us enhance our sensitivity? And, what happens as we refine our sensitivity in all aspects of our yoga practice? What do we discover?

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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of Motion, Action, Awareness

All yoga practices offer opportunities to explore and expand our awareness.

The notion of Range of Motion is expanded to mean the totality of potential range of healthy movement that we can consciously do. Range of Action is the complete set of possible variations along the many variables involved in healthy activity. Range of Action encompasses all the different aspects of you that are involved in the activity. Using your awareness to explore your range of action enriches the experience and enhances your ability to develop nuance in your practice. Presence is an ever-evolving journey of exploration that leads us to an ever-expanding integrated awareness.

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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Two natural tendencies

Recognizing two natural tendencies that support us

To overcome tendencies toward negativity it is useful to remember that we have two very useful natural tendencies that require no effort: Moving toward feeling better and moving away from pain. Become familiar with how they feel, what happens when you move toward feeling better? What do you feel when you notice pain? How are you using these two tendencies in your own practice of all aspects of yoga?

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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Gradual progress

Can you recognize that you are making progress toward your goal?

Examine your past actions, are you moving toward your goal? Some of our actions may have taken us away from our goal. This happens to most of us. Noticing that we stray from the goal is an indication of progress. Would you trade places with an earlier version of yourself?'

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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: It's up to you

Embarking on the journey of self-discovery is your choice

YOGA, You Organically Growing Aware. Four aspects of yoga. Yoga cannot change your beliefs, dispositions, intentions, and actions, only you can! And because this is a lifelong, personal process, it is imperative that you make the conscious decision to do it for yourself.

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