{"id":526,"date":"2021-08-13T20:28:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T20:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yoga-liverpool.co.uk\/?p=526"},"modified":"2021-08-13T20:28:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T20:28:59","slug":"inner-watching-during-yoga-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoga-liverpool.co.uk\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Inner Watching During Yoga Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many traps to get caught in when practicing Yoga.\u00a0 Some of the most common ones are becoming obsessed with &#8220;achieving&#8221; or &#8220;mastering&#8221; an asana (posture) <strong>OR<\/strong> perhaps losing ourselves in the physicality\/sensualness of the practice <strong>OR<\/strong> perhaps just letting the mind drift with thoughts, hopes and dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Well a clever little technique to bring mindfulness back into our body when practicing involves asking ourselves the following when we are on the mat,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Is the breath free?\u00a0 When we hold or control our breath we tend to lose awareness &#8211; ALWAYS SET THE BREATH FREE<\/li>\n<li>What is the direction of an asana, ie what spatial direction should we moving into?<\/li>\n<li>Where is our centre of gravity (centre of our mass\/weight)?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>By asking these 3 questions as we practice we can move into\u00a0Sthira and Sukha (Steadiness and Ease) which is the essence of a true Yoga asana practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many traps to get caught in when practicing Yoga.\u00a0 Some of the most common ones are becoming obsessed with &#8220;achieving&#8221; or &#8220;mastering&#8221; an asana (posture) OR perhaps losing ourselves in the physicality\/sensualness of the practice OR perhaps just letting the mind drift with thoughts, hopes and dreams. Well a clever little technique to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-liverpool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-liverpool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-liverpool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-liverpool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-liverpool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-liverpool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-liverpool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-liverpool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-liverpool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoga-liverpool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}