The Art of Vinyasa: Awakening Body and Mind through the Practice of Ashtanga Yoga

Three Wisdom Tools To take this journey inward, we’re going to engage the three prajnas, or “wisdom tools,” of hearing, contemplating, and meditating.6 Hearing, or reading, about something leads to contemplating upon it, which leads to meditating on it. By reading and thinking about this material, you will be engaging the first two wisdom tools. In

When our saṁskāras are suspended, instead of experiencing a sense of anxiety due to tension between our projections and the truth, we may experience a deep sense of physical relief within the body; the glorious feeling of the residue of truth.

idea. The physical nature of many traditional yoga practices gives an unusual visceral understanding of the interpenetration of all aspects of life, which can be uniquely clear and profound because it is a direct experience of the interpenetration of form and idea within our own body.

You can read and write about yoga, philosophy and anatomy until you are weary. However, without participation and cumulative experience you will not incorporate its incredible value into your tissues. It comes alive first and foremost in our felt sense, and not our technical explanations.