Cit: Awareness in Action

As we practice yoga, we feel a great deal. At the beginning, everything may register as undifferentiated sensation. Overtime, we learn to discern what is strengthening and what is stretching. We also learn to gauge how much effort or ease to apply in each pose. We can even learn how to respond once we realize we have pushed too far. All of these abilities are developed through thorough and consistent observation of ourselves during practice.

As you can see from what I have described, the  experience of the practice becomes more and more refined overtime. At some point, we feel comfortable enough to begin adjusting not only physically, but also mentally. An advance yoga practice is not necessarily defined by doing the most difficult poses, but by how capable we are  of recognizing subtlety within our practice.

Cit is the deepest and most subtle level of self that we can experience through practice. Yet it all begins at the most tangible level: the body.

I look forward to seeing you in class as we learn to engage with and feel our bodies more deeply.

Breathe easy,

Blessings,

Jorge Nihāl