Immediately Yoga

Immediately yoga: 

my day is almost immediately yoga, right from my initial smile of greeting a new morning, thankful for having awakened, I am then sitting in sukhasana, an easy pose for breathwork and meditation and the first asana of my practice. This is a gentle pose, a slight stretch of knees and hips while lengthening the spine for the rise of morning energy. Often, I feel like I could sit in this asana forever, as if Lord Shiva in full lotus, deep in meditation as the day begins to unfold around me. 

of course it's usually for only 30 minutes, and towards the end my knees are just then reminding me of age and a lifetime of many miles behind them. But I love this posture and how it's a reminder that my day is almost immediately yoga, an asana of instant transformation from a sleep-filled mind to the awakening of a brand new day. 

it's an asana of promise. 

an easy pose.

yet the posture itself is less important than the intent that urges me to sit in meditation - and with this in mind even the edge of my bed will do, or a straight back chair for greater comfort. There's no magical posture for awakening, although, yes, sukhasana certainly holds an energetic spell on me. But honestly, I think it's that initial smile that plays across my lips that is the true essence of yoga, it signifies a grateful shift from darkness to the morning light. This smile is the essence of yoga, most truly my first asana of the day, an easy pose too, spontaneous, and arriving instantly to my lips each morning.

immediately...

yoga. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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My Headless Posture

My headless Posture:

when asked which yoga asana was best for self-realization, Ramana Maharshi replied that it was the posture of the heart that one must position themselves in, taking our seat as consciousness itself and remain unwavering in our steadiness and ease here. Pressed further and he stated that only one posture was truly necessary, sukhasana, easy pose, and that this is the asana of happiness, no other posture needed for one seated in this way. Sukhasana is the heart pose, it's where we take our seat as awareness without strain or effort, our authentic posture of self-realization. 

Simply sitting as we are. 

I love to think of this as my headless posture, my place of revelation where the yogi disappears and only the yoga of life remains, an infinite display of seamless wonder, the world already in union with the divine. This the is heart center, my only true place of worship, and the easiness of sukhasana gives me reason to smile at my years of effort. 

it was right here all along. 

yet I was too busy performing complicated asanas.

entirely missing what is ever present.

it's not that yoga isn't a worthwhile practice, indeed it's brought me years of joy and opened me to a great source of energy. But the irony is that only one posture was ever really needed, the easiest of them all, and it was simply sitting comfortably until my true self was revealed. So sukhasana is a posture of inquiry, a seat designed for self-revelation, it's where the yogi is revealed as the source of every asana, the very beginning and endpoint of yoga practice. 

this heart-seat is my yoga.

simply sitting...

and reality revealed.

~

Peace, Eric 

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