Yoga on the breath
Tammy,
The other day you caught me grimacing during a pose and told me to breathe and smile. Why is breathing given such a big focus in yoga?
When you’re concentrating on your breath, you fail to take life for granted. You fail to worry that you’re doing triangle pose wrong and you fail to care that your shorts are riding down and someone might see a small part of your butt.
Right now I’m in your level one class so I’m just concentrating on achieving some semblance of the basic poses and simultaneously breathing smoothly.
In the advanced yoga classes do they teach multi-tasking like breathing and thinking? How can I grow into a mature yogi if we continue to do the happy baby pose? Let’s start practicing the snotty teenager pose; my sense of humor might fit in better.
Is it possible we concentrate our thoughts on each breath so we live life in the moment, here and now?
Gary Kahn
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