Making practice matter
Every person's body, needs and life are different. Every person’s path is unique and therefore, so should our own daily routine be an expression of this individuality. What and when we eat, how much water we individually need, the type of exercise our body requires and which practices will have the effects we desire on our body-mind-spirit is something that we can never be taught but can only be explored and understood through experiential practice.
Perhaps the most important part of all, is to establish an approach that inspires you to return because you enjoy it rather than any potential gains. It is here we learn the more we want to do our practice, the more it actually benefits us and those around us. It is this that makes what we undertake sustainable.
The natural state of living in balance is rooted in the principle that every living being has its own basic truth that is required to maintain life in harmony with itself, with nature and all aspect of our life from the challenges we face, the relationships we have to the person we are to become.
SADHANA inspiration
By establishing your deepest motivation, intention will be clearer. Intention applies to everything we do. Hone your attention and intention.
Just as unique as you are at the very core of your individual being, so are your core values within. Feel you way don’t think your way.
The conditions of unnecessary pain can be shed. Until you become skilful in the art of having fun, this will be a hard process.
The first thing we bring is the experience of gentleness. Walk the landscape of you body-mind-spirit with care so what you undertake can be sustainable.
Don’t get imprisoned by other peoples ideas. Experiential practice means learning from your own experience. In other words, stay flexible.
Find a range from stimulating movement to the softer more gentle. Just enough to keep it interesting, not so much that we burn out and can’t sustain it.
This is the essence of Sadhana describes the journey of self discovery and inner alignment through consistent cultivation of self knowing. This orientates us to not only knowing our own greatest gifts, but then to live our life according to this pattern and vast potential. This is our quest.
It’s helpful for us as practitioners to create an approach that inspires us to return to the various practices themselves in order to continually refresh our vision of what our practice is all about, what our life is all about and what we want for our life, to hold space for it to really enter our lives. It is not just feeling lighter emotionally or physically, feeling more spiritual or about managing deep emotions, but this is about becoming intimate with how life really is. That is yoga.
Making each practice matter challenges us to look squarely at what we are most committed to whilst building a bridge between our own practice and the ground upon which we stand and what we ourself stand for.
Sometimes we use practice to help us become an island of calm within ourselves or to create the body that want more than the earth-suit we have been gifted for this lifetime. Just as we need our lives to be grounded in practice, we also need our practice to be grounded in our real life. So before we talk about the importance of creating a sustainable Sadhana, we can ask, what and who is this practice for? What is the intention behind this? It is from this place that we can begin to carve out a practice that we can carry with us through all the various seasons of our life. In this way, almost anything can be considered as Sadhana.
