My approach to Yoga and Meditation Techniques
It took me some time to set my point of view of myself and human beings as the so-called bodymind complex. Our bodies are the recipients of our being, the tools of manifestation for our individuality. In our bodies lie health, movement, emotion, thought, pleasure… As far as my understanding reaches, the body being the horse, the mind being the rider.
We use our bodies to do everything in our lives and body activities can cover from eating to sex, from sport to dancing, from cooking to sleep. We live in this wonderful machinery and we can treat this machinery as we want. I started practising Yoga and Body Awareness Techniques when I reached a stage in my life in which I had started to be very detached from my body, my feelings and emotions, I was living over my body and it took me some time to recover it and to love it again.
Body Work can cover many approaches and techniques and it can be labelled in many ways: Yoga, Pilates, Alexander, Gymnastics… it all basically depends on what we want to use our body for. When I started experimenting Yoga I really felt that its simplicity and its ancient flavour gave me a sense of confidence and I started sensing the answer to many mental questions I had always had.
Practising Yoga and Meditation Techniques took me closer and closer to a sense of inner peace, health and balance and it expanded many aspects of my physical and mental skills.
Certain silence, concentration and breathing are basic for me to keep me going and to connect with inner spaces in me and with a beauty difficult to explain.
Yoga can be just a short way of saying body work with awareness, balance and love and it can be as widely enriched and applied as its history over the ages has shown. It is just one approach, a very simple and deep technique to tackle the bodymind complex of each individual.
Yoga is also a way of reaching meditative states, and it sets some physical bases to attain certain peace and self-comfort for dealing with everyday life. Both Yoga and Meditation are intimately linked to each individual and can be expanded as much as the practitioner wants to. They are not necessarily related to religious or ritual practice but, as a holistically-intended approach, it covers most, if not all, aspects of human being and awareness: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Its simplicity makes it global and at reach for everyone who has a body and a mind.
