Sentences with phrase «asana practice begins»

After centering and pranayama, the asana practice begins.

Not exact matches

While many begin their yoga practice with an asana (physical posture), there are other aspects of yoga that serve their purpose in designing a balanced life.

I really hated this practice, which was part of our ritual each time we began an asana practice with Chris, be it in teacher training, at his studio or during private sessions.

My practice began with asana.

During these years, Annie studied Iyengar yoga and began to shift her daily practice and teaching away from dance and towards yoga - asana.

At the beginning of the third week something had changed and I could start to just do the practice, could dive into the asanas without proving myself anything, I was able to let go and felt so great and light that I can't describe it.

The classes usually begin with pranayama exercises and gentle stretches followed by asana practice and ending with final relaxation.

Through yogic practices and philosophy — asana, pranayama (breathwork), meditation — we begin to look at the world anew and experience the union of ourselves with everything.

When I began regularly practicing yoga asana some 9 years ago, I never imagined myself as a instructor, let alone a yoga therapist in training, crafting her own full time career as a professional teacher.

Robin Fann - Costanzo began practicing yoga and massage at the Esalen Institute in 1994 and in 2003 created a weekly Restorative yoga class using the asanas, poetry, and sound vibration to invite students to go into a deep refuge of relaxation and self - awareness.

If you feel calm when you enter a yoga studio, you may notice that pleasant feeling start to slip away as you begin to practice certain asanas.

It's a tale you hear over and over with yogis who have practiced for many years - the story of starting with the physical practice (asana) along with the breath (pranayama), then beginning to feel like something was missing or there was more to learn, so naturally moving towards education and observation of other limbs of the yogic tradition like meditation, and the yamas and niyamas.

This oneness begins with the asanas, postures that are practiced along with a meditative focus and carefully controlled breathing, or pranayama.

At the beginning of each class an expert instructor explains and describes the Asana and how to practice them.