How important is awareness in yoga practice?

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If you want to practice yoga, you may ask your teacher what to practice first and what is the most important.

Then your teacher will tell you to pay attention to breathing, starting from the basic posture, and so on.

In fact, there is also a very important point.

The teacher will keep mentioning it in the process of teaching and learning, but the students are not easily aware of it.

That is awareness.

Awareness is how you feel about the present.

For a very simple example, the teacher said: “Exhale, take your arms with your upper body, slowly move forward and down, and feel your spine stretching and lengthening…” Then, can you really feel your spine stretching and lengthening? For example, the teacher said: “pubic bone lifting, tailbone adduction, thigh muscle internal rotation tightening…”, then can you really feel your muscles are tightening, or relaxing? This current and ongoing feeling is awareness.

One important difference between yoga practice and other sports is awareness.

Other sports pay more attention to purpose.

To run, just run fast; To play, it is enough to be able to accurately receive and serve the ball; Jump rope, jump more and faster.

Such sports will learn how to exert force during training and become accustomed to nature.

However, in the actual exercise process, it is not necessary to pay attention to which muscle is exerting force, whether your chest and abdomen are tightened or relaxed, and so on.

But in the process of yoga practice, we need to pay attention to the existence of our muscles, bones, viscera and breathing.

You should know that every time you practice, you feel different.

You have made progress today, and you may do it more deeply today; I’m not in good condition today.

I may not do well today.

Just as there are no identical two leaves and two eggs, there are no identical two exercises.

So every time you need to pay attention to the current feeling, if you have become accustomed to nature, have become subconscious, and just complete the body movements over and over again, then this exercise will become posing.

What is the harm of practice without awareness? It is often said that yoga practice hurts the body.

In fact, one of the reasons is that we don’t pay enough attention to awareness.

For example, yoga can open tight joints, but the process is gradual and slow.

When you feel muscle tightness and slight dull pain, you can’t go further.

You should do breathing maintenance at this level to give joints and muscles an adaptive process.

However, some students who are in urgent need will feel excited when their posture is improving, and forget to pay attention to their own body for a moment.

Have they felt sharp pain? Are you breathing tight? But it is still moving forward.

Then when his practice is over, the excitement subsides, and the clear pain will be transmitted to his head.

I saw a video a few days ago, and the exerciser completed a beautiful wheel pose, but the commentary is: in order to practice in three days, I did not hesitate to use all my strength, and now I feel so painful that I even feel difficult to go up and down the stairs.

This is an exercise that can cause terrible consequences if you neglect your vision.

It cannot be asserted that the lumbar spine of the exerciser must have been strongly squeezed and protruded, but the lumbar spine injury is certain.

This kind of practice has no benefit, but will bring harm.

So how to improve your awareness? absorbed.

Whether you practice in the classroom or at home, you should be prepared before practice.

Find a time and space where no one will disturb you.

You’d better turn off your mobile phone.

There is no interference except background music.

During the whole exercise, pay more attention to your body feeling and breathing than to how deep you can do this pose.

Therefore, it is better not to have a mirror in the practice area, so as not to involuntarily check how your posture is doing, or even pay attention to your appearance, yoga clothes, etc.

Training.

Close your eyes and ask someone else to give out body commands, such as random commands without order on toes, knees, hair, ears, etc.

The trainer can touch the instructed part quickly and accurately after the command is given.

Don’t think this is an easy exercise.

In my members, a considerable number of people will hesitate to touch the instructed part or shake their fingers around to accurately touch it.

Of course, after a period of training, it is much better.

When the touch of fingers is sensitive and accurate, you can abandon the touch of fingers and change it to conscious touch.

The way to do this is to immediately move your focus to the instructed part when you hear the command.

In fact, at the end of the practice, some coaches will guide students to breathe and relax, using consciousness instructions.

Therefore, whether a beginner or a senior practitioner, awareness is the first thing to pay attention to in the practice process.

Improving the body’s awareness and awareness can not only help avoid physical injury, but also provide guarantee for steady progress.
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