YEM: YOGA AS ENERGY MEDICINE
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reath awareness offers each of us unique and profound
insight into who we are and how we are feeling. It connects our inner, personal world of sensations, thoughts and
experience, with the outer world that unfolds around us.
One of the more introverted yoga poses, the forward bending Crab pose, is a welcome relief at the end of a busy day
of “doing”. It moves your awareness away from the external and helps you cultivate greater internal wisdom. It is
also a wonderful pose to start your day, as it cultivates humility, receptivity and the awareness that our relationship
with our internal
world is reflected back to us through our relationship with our external
world. The wise yogi knows that each thought, feeling and
idea literally affects the way we experience the moment,
and this sets the arch and trajectory of our life.
Please remember that the goal of this exercise is not to
“work hard” but to get in touch with your true source of
power. Connect to your breath, your body and your spine and witness whatever may arise.
Release all tendency to have an agenda. Practice presence. In this allowing, you create a