I have really enjoyed the topic of the yoga training of the last couple of days... Emotion in Yoga and discovering your voice, because: I am a totally emotional person and I love and adore chanting! We always start our practice with the sound of OHM. It is so funny to me now how odd it felt to chant when I first started doing yoga. It felt so different and foreign to anything else I had done. But now a yoga practice doesn't feel complete without it! At the end of every day of the training we have done a longer chant and it is so lovely to raise our voices and make a joyful noise together. I have long thought that our singing hymns at church stems from the ancient practice of chanting and there is something fiercely powerful in uttering the same sound simultaneously, either at the same pitch or harmonizing together. I also love the moment right as its ending when there is an echo and then a lingering vibration. Now that is a moment!
When talking about the emotions of yoga, Syl mentioned Karma, Dharma, and Nirvana which are topics I look forward to learning more about. I definitely believe in Karma and I'm still searching for my Dharma! And who doesn't want to reach Nirvana? Hopefully in this life. I also like talking about emotion in the context of yoga because the release of emotions is one of the most powerful draws for me to the practice. It was such an unexpected consequence for me when I first started doing yoga. I initially started it for purely physical reasons, but soon enough found that with the opening of my hips came the flow of my feelings, my fears, my very soul. Now I need to do it -- I crave it!
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