Breathing From the Bones Self-Discovery Course

Center oneself from the beginning of the practice, quiet the mind to enter the temple of the heart and body, so as to listen to subtleties of the inner universe. Feel the body, sense its state, where have you been? How has this impacted your total self since you last came checked in with your inner self.

A short feedback on the 1st question in the questionnaire.  

Cultivate calm.  Connect to the in breath to begin box breathing.  Inhale for the count of 4, hold the breath in for 4, exhale for the count of 4, hold the breath out for the count of 4, begin again.  Try to do 6 cycles like these.  After this breathing practice, take time to sit in calmness, feel the rhythm of your heartbeat, stay present as you carry this calmness into your day.  

Take a moment to remember a moment in your life where you received exactly what your heart desire.  If you can’t remember one specifically try to imagine what it feels like to get exactly what you want. Follow this train of knowledge, stay connected to your learning, there is no determining of what you may learn, but you may imagine where you may be heading, whether it be moving towards a goal or completing a task effortlessly.  What you can imagine, you can may reach.  Leave room for absolute potential slowly connecting the dots towards it.

What is it you love to do, or have always wanted to do.  This is fundamental principle to mastery. The key is enjoying the learning process.  Keeping these learnings at the heart, one can become very creative in one’s life, whether it be cooking or dressing!  Trying differient methods of ways you always have done things stirs the repetitiveness and brings back joy into life through creativity and living in the present moment.

The heart has the purest intentions, sits in compassion and understanding.  The heart is the messenger of the body, through sensations and feelings, to the brain, the brain responds sending signals back.  Often we are more connected to the brains impulses than to the heart & body’s feelings. Intuition is not as mental process, it is awareness of subtle feelings, and inner voice of the body/instinct that begins to guide the practice, and as a ripple effect, one’s life.  Trusting one’s heart and body signals is the gateway to trusting the greater Source of life.

Entanglement is a scientific term for interconnectedness.  If one goes back to theory of the Big Bang, we all were one at this point, thus we are all manifestations of this oneness. Hence synchronicity being a very realistic event of this oneness.  Connecting with the energy around, such as gravity, air, feeling these forces from the feet through the legs to the spine to the pelvis and from the head to the heart, heart to ribs, ribs to hips, we become a conduit of this external energy within.  This brings us into the alignment with the one.  When we are fully present to this energy, we can only expect to be guided with the same intelligence that guides animals away from danger, the plant roots system into the ground, the tree leaves to the sun, the evolution of all things comes from this, that fateful moment meeting a stranger in line that presents an opportunity one has been waiting for, this is the flowing truth of synchronicity and oneness.

As mentioned in the last principle, the importance of connecting with the energy around us and inside of us.  This is the essence of the Yoga practice, sensing energy chi/prana. Aligning to this energy, takes time and a deep inner concentration, but once connected, a deep inner joy begins to emerge as this understanding brings a knowing that our health and wellbeing stems from within.

The most important person we meet on our journey of becoming is our self.  Our self and our many layers.  As mentioned we all have energy we move through life with, sometimes more connected to mental energy, some more connected to physical.  Energy (energy in motion, e-mottion) is akin to will, whether the will of the mind or physical, the call of the Yoga practice is to deepen our connection to the will of the heart, and this deepens our will for transformation and growth.  Mr. Iyengar, said Hatha Yoga is actually the Yoga of will, it develops and transforms ones will to live well and inspires one’s life force.  We can monitor our will throughout the day, are we being driven by primal physical forces (hunger etc.) or mental (consumption of things) or by the heart? (feeling the sand between our toes).

It has been said by the Yogi’s that the Atman/Soul resides in the heart, it is has been found scientifically the heart is the first organ to burst into life and thus connected to the spark of life.  When our life is fed by the will of the heart, with compassion, with understanding, a deep force begins to emerge. 

Relaxing into the moment, that all is as its meant to be at this moment, allows us to trust in the unfolding.

Even with the world whirling around, try to practice absolute relaxation, stillness, letting go and being comfortable on all levels whilst close to the gravitational pull downward.  Commune with the mother earth energy.

It is said the universe speaks in the language of silence, the Yogic practice cultivates one’s ability to sit and commune with the silence of the Self, where all is knowing.  The practice of pranayama (breath practices) helps to quiet the distracted mind so as to bring one into comfortable extended moments of silence, otherwise known as meditation and hear the deepest murmurings of our pure self.

Let go of the outer mental restrictions, feel the pranic body, open the arms wide, draw them to your heart, lift the heart and then round the back, undulate the spine tail to head, feel the whole body come awake as one!

When one breathes, air enters the lungs, oxygen is delivered via the bones to blood to every cell of the body.  Red blood cells are produced inside the bones they transport oxygen to the whole body.  The cells in turn rid the body of carbon dioxide which leaves when your body breathes out. To deeply connect with the energy of the universe we must peel back the layers of the mind to the intelligence at the center of the body, cells heart and essentially the bones, thus feeling our whole body breathe.