As Tomas Hanna, the founder of somatics,was saying, ‘One of the myths of aging is that we cannot do all the things that we once could do. But the actual fact about aging is that we stop doing all the things that we once did.
As our search for a vocation settles into a fixed profession and our search for a soul mate settles into a marriage, as our many expectations settle into a number of fulfilments and our aspirations turn into conviction and as our broad range of potential movements settles into a narrow band of habitual movements, we will inevitably find ourselves looking in fewer directions. As the possibilities of our life are sorted through, discarded, and finally edited down to a daily routine, our living functions become limited and specialised.’
As we become fixed in our ways and minds we find ourselves in rigid and fixed bodies. The only possible answer to this is to keep on moving. Bu there are different sorts of moves and physical exercises.
In my classes I often here the complaints from gym users about muscle and ligament aches after weight lifting exercises. As it happens, people are rarely looked after when they are on the gym floor or stopped when they progressively injure themselves. Yoga based exercise is times safer. What offered by this ancient practice is unique and based on the profound knowledge of human body, with which the official science is still to catch up.
While in the class, your whole being is involved into transitioning into different postures, called asanas, holding them for some while, depending on the level of practice, and connecting the body in a magical whole by finding your core and connecting body and mind through breath awareness.
It’s a common mistake to confuse and identify yoga with stretch only. The usual practice involves holding the postures and using the body as a weight to load the muscles, tone and pump body with strength.
I have been doing yoga for 20 years now, since 2004, and I feel and look like a living prove of greatness of this practice.
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