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Featured Teacher: Keith Partington
Let’s practice! Yes, let’s. Easy to do at Sonic with your favorite teacher, easy to
do during a retreat in an idea locale. But, yoga is not an activity. It is a state of
being. Yoga practices are activities. These practices are meant to strengthen us
and make us more pliable. Our bodies, yes, but more so our minds. The yoga
techniques learned in classes are meant to be mechanisms to shift and
ultimately direct energies is our subtle body systems. Are you able to do this on
your own? If the answer is no, or ”I’m not sure”, then why not sit quietly and test
this?
The structure of practices are, traditionally, representations of challenges we
face in our lives. Things we learn and practice in classes are meant to be applied
to our everyday lives. We are meant to more and more transcend transient
concerns and see a longer, broader view of our existence and its meaning
through what we are learning the mat.
So let’s practice. And let that practice begin when you roll up your mat and put it
away. See yourself in others, and pull back your focus from the micro to the
macro and see your struggles as tests and measures for your eternal self, your
soul, to learn from- to gain more wisdom and clarity in order to elevate the
energy around you, wherever you find yourself.
Practice
Sit for 30 minutes each day. Sit in stillness, in silence. That is all. Let it be a
measure of your strength, pliability and endurance gained through you class
practices. No techniques. Let what may come, come. Don’t try to meditate.
Meditate. Trust that your work to this point has given you this remarkable ability.
