My path with Yoga

What I come to share with you today, are the reflections that the lunar cancer cycle left me: This cycle invited me to connect and feel-think about my emotional world. Through my emotion, I connect a lot with other people, showing my sensitive side, my emotional side and perhaps, more vulnerable. I know that showing that is not a weakness, but a strength. Being sensitive beings fraternize us. Connecting with emotionality empathizes us with those who are next door, it opens us to listen, to accompany, to encourage, to motivate, to inspire, to share, to give the best so that another being who feels is also. This last time I accompanied people to transit in a healthy way, with love and in presence, different emotional processes, because from my experience, knowledge and emotion, it came out just to do it, I didn't have to think about it, it was born from the inside, from where emotions come from, like energetic impulses. In a society that invites us to live in separation, indiv...

In order not to live in automatic mode, without being present in our own life, in our breathing, body, thoughts, words, actions and our habits. It is very difficult to get to know ourselves if we are not present. The presence allows us to observe, this in turn, allows us to get to know each other, and that allows us to be aware, choose to inhabit ourselves, choose ourselves, choose to take care of ourselves. Yoga and Ayurveda are two ancient sciences of self-knowledge. They invite us to know our uniqueness (body, mind, spirit) and through self-observation to be able to heal ourselves, adding the habits that do us good and subtracting those that do not. If we are present in our breathing we can learn to use our most efficient and powerful tool to manage our vital energy, calm the central nervous system, calm the mind and thus our emotions, and more calmly manage them. Observe how you breathe: If you do it by nose or mouth. If it's soft, slow and deep, or it's fast, strong, short...

  The spirit is our passions, emotions and our feelings. If we hold on to an emotion and it lasts, it becomes... a feeling. Emotions are energy impulses, which produce physiological changes in the physical body. That is why it is so important to feel, think and do coherently, in harmony between these three planes, to avoid the suffering that disharmony can generate. The body is the vehicle of our spirit on the physical plane, it is the materialized energy. Our body is the sacred temple of the being that inhabits us, our own god/goddess creator of our life (with our thoughts and actions), we take care of it so that our being can expand in harmony. The mind is energy of the subtle plane, of our brain and the nervous system. It loads with our genetic code, the collective unconscious, our beliefs, memories of experiences, patterns, etc., all of them generate thoughts, which can produce emotions of high or low vibration. Hence the importance of: Educate the mind to generate healthy thou...

  In the previous post we said that we are a spirit that has a body and a mind that coexists in union with the whole and that YOGA seeks unity in harmony through its practice. But, how? Patanjali was the teacher who codified the teachings of Yoga in the book the Yoga Sutras or aphorisms of Yoga. He also taught the technique of VIYOGA that is about separating the spirit, mind and body, thus seeing its true nature.  This way we can better understand our feelings and affective states, to then be able to integrate physically and mentally. It proposes to us to know our being, our essence, so that we can then bring that essence to the body and mind. Spiritually we feel, mentally we think and physically we do. But many times it happens that we "think, feel and do" contrary to what we really are and that generates DUKHA or dissatisfaction that generates sadness, anguish or anxiety. Patanjali said: "Yoga Chitta Vritti Nirodha". What it means, "Yoga is the control of emo...