Complex simplicity
I have not yet gotten into this continuous blogging and I am not a friend of posting the same thing on all the various platforms.
But I will make an exception 🙃
So if you do not know me, or my journey, Daniel was my first teacher, guru or experience of yoga.
It was not a common thing back then, some 16-17 years ago, and I honestly until this day not really know why I went on that weekend workshop, introduction to yoga. I can not even recall where I found out about it?
Maybe rather, it changed the way I relate to life and foremost how I relate to myself.
And as I think most of us sometimes hesitate and doubt the path we are on, or the way we are pursuing it. Especially if the way of interpretation vary a little bit from the road well travelled. So when I saw this post, I could not help but smile. Relieved, like a burden was lifted off my shoulders. He express, very beautifully, exactly what I felt that weekend at Yoga Kendra on Djäknegatan, in Malmo. And what I have tried to forward and share all these hours, years … I didn’t grasp the vastness then, I still don’t but in all it’s complexity it is so simple, and it makes me smile, makes me soar 🙏
Thank you Yoga Daniel!
If a writer does not know the positions of the keys on the keyboard of his laptop then his writing can not follow the flow of his inspiration and his writing becomes dry. Similarly, the yogi who does not embody the flow of vinyasa and asana can not let his spirit soar. He remain stuck on the physical details of his body/mind/organism.
This could be why the modern yoga has degraded from a spiritual science into mere physiotherapy and exercise.
Try to practice a simple flow, and simple asana, with full awareness and intense sensitivity and you will feel your spirit elevate itself. Forget alignment, forget what it looks like. Simply flow and feel, listen and detach, and you will soar.
And never, never push yourself on the mat. Push yourself to the mat!
Asana is as important in Yoga as calligraphy is in writing. Sure, it is nice if the writing is beautiful, but what is the meaning of the text? Creative and inspired writing from the highest source transcends time and ideas shared can change the the evolution of us as a specie.
A pretty handwriting is just…. a pretty handwriting…
S.L.V.
Daniel