Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Core Body Awareness
I have been practicing yoga for nearly twenty years and believed myself to have a fairly good understanding of my body and how it works. Certainly one of the gifts of yoga is an amazing awareness of our physical being that may be developed, and the resulting benefits. Having said that, it was not really until I started practicing Asthanga Vinyasa Yoga that I had any idea what a bandha was or how that related to my core body, and the consequent implications of that awareness.
Augmenting that revelation, I had the opportunity to work with Ana Forrest a couple of years ago and had a huge awakening as to what core strength really could be, and what it wasn’t, in my body, at that time even though I had a dedicated asana practice. Whew, did she ever wake me up!! Needless to say, it was an amazing wake up call because, up to that time I had really only been skirting around deep core awareness with my understanding of bandhas - as limited as it was.
