Understanding Healing Yoga; Spirituality and Sensory Awareness.

Spirituality is very personal and I have spent about two decades really focusing on experiencing the human body because that is something we all equivocally share. I am a practicing Buddhist with a sprinkle of my Roman catholic upbringing.

The way I help people experience spirituality in different modalities is through breath movement and imagination exercises also known as meditation or relaxation. I also offer these exercises in an effort to provide a sensory experience.

From creating these spiritual experiences, you can turn on sensory awareness. You can have deep feelings of harmony, balance and relaxation that really dissolves the obstacles to healing in the body that are fundamental at the heart level that they combat.

You must have realized that in constantly trying to experience awareness you encounter many obstacles. However, awareness truly happens by dissolving obstacles not by adding to them. Physical and pose practice will begin to dissolve this on a tissue level which can progress to wholesome experiences.

Back story

I was born with a birth defect that was corrected through casting for the first two years of my life and the result was that I needed a hip replacement in my early 40s, leading up to this, I was in a great deal of pain which I was trying to postpone. 

I was using yoga to keep the tissue mobile and also help distinguish between my sensory experience of being in a body that needed repair —which is different but aligned— and needing my wholeness through this body that was awaiting repair.

I would use my practice to address specific muscular tissue to allow more mobility in my hip structures and that’s what yoga does. It addresses those areas as part of the full system and works with the breath, so from inside we are breathing and in doing so we start to dissolve physical limitations.

The Results

As the body begins to relax, this relaxation is distributed across the areas connected to it in the body and that sense of ease that grows in the body feeds back into the breath that helps create it and then the breath becomes more balanced. 

When your breath becomes balanced the deep layers of our nervous system tell us what to do, whether to react to the world by fight, flight or freeze or move to rest, digest and connect. That’s called a creative system and those layers interact with one another, this feeds from the breath into the postures making you even more balanced.

This is a constant feedback system in a way that creates profound release and in that release you contact healing that is all together physical, spiritual and psychological.

Do the general categories and poses work fine for you or do you prefer to tend to specific areas of your mind and body? Find out here

For more on understanding healing yoga, listen to my Interview With Blog Talk Radio, "Pure Hope Show".