Yoga
For me Yoga is movement
It’s the large movements of the body through space and the smaller movements of the body that create and perpetuate the breath.
Our modern lives are built for ‘comfort’ and ‘ease’ but in building this world around us we’ve removed the need for movement from our lives. We’ve become static and sedentary.
The majority of our waking time is spent in one shape – sitting on a chair – we do it when at work, we do it every time we sit to eat during the day, when we travel whether by car, tram, bus, even when
we cycle we are still sitting!
Our bodies were made for movement and when they don’t move muscles and joints become weak or tight. When we don’t move our body we don’t move our breath and it becomes tight, held, rigid.
This leads to discomfort and dysfunction in our body – our body doesn’t work – or feel – as well as it could.
Yoga gives us a way in to breaking this habit of nonmoving, allowing us to move the whole of the body through its full range of possibilities in turn creating space for the breath to be free.
Where we find movement we find lightness and
space and feel the joy of being in our body.