The Yoga of the Subtle Body

The yoga of the subtle body: 

it's the yoga of the subtle body that has always fascinated me, draws me to my practice, and captures my curiosity so deeply. To know that my body extends to a point unseen, a finer layer consisting of an energetic structure that provides me breath, thought, and higher wisdom - this is what yoga calls to me to explore. The Bhagavad Gita describes this body as consisting of the mind, intellect, and ego, noting how it controls the physical and provides us with the ability to experience pleasure and pain. Yogic philosophy actually claims that we consist of three bodies, koshas or sheaths, and these are causal, subtle, and the physical that we are most familiar with. 

but it's the yoga of the subtle body that holds my fascination. 

perhaps this is due to my own physicality, that I am drawn to express myself through motion, running and walking great distances, lifting heavy objects and using my body to perform various feats of endurance and strength. I find it interesting that there's a finer, more subtle body just past this physical expression that actually calls for this motion. 

yet I think it's the continuation of bodies that I'm most curious about, how an aspect of self continues unseen until even this subtle expression gives way to something larger still. How far do I extend across an infinite field of energy? 

that's what I'm curious about. 

the yoga of the subtle body is a revelation of my every expression, showing aspects of self merging to finer layers of reality that somehow seem to carry on forever. At some point here, just past the physicality of existence, all identity is dropped, there is only the continuation now...

subtle bodies left entirely behind.

an infinite field of energy,

beckoning. 

~

Peace, Eric