Sensory Garden - Bottom to top

Yoga is a full-bodied, pro-active practice.  Yoga aims toward better health and longevity.

"Yoga" is translated as union, or joining.  Yogic Peace could be described as combining opposites to find peace:  happy and sad, good and bad, cold and hot, etc.  From the first time that I practiced the art, I felt the distant calling of everything and nothing.  The matching of extremes brought me great comfort, in a society that strives for great performance and avoids pain at all costs.

Practicing yoga, as I consciously live and purposefully breathe, I am in unison with my world.  Body, Mind & Spirit create connectivity with our planet, our universe, and each other.  Questions remained.  What is the key to sustaining the union?  Do I practice yoga morning and night, to endure the day?  Or, can I take the feeling of calm acceptance into the day with me?

Experience was "the" teacher, so I learned by doing yoga: living and breathing.  The key to sustaining peace of mind (top) is to begin every thought with pure intention/gut instinct (bottom).   Contemplating every decision, I ask my deepest element.  Is this it?  Is there more?  Now, or later?  All the questions that come to mind (top) can be answered with a guttural answer (bottom), yes or no.  The tricky part is feeling the answer and interpreting through feelings from the heart.  As I filter my gut instincts with emotion, my intuition is a strong guide for my mind.     

Yoga tunes the spine and reforms the balance within all systems in the body:  endocrine glands, emotions, physical matter and nerves.  With a healthy spleen, adrenal, and thymus, my brain is left with much less of a burden.  The brain is not reeling with thoughts, it is a processing computer waiting to be used.

Living to breathe, I learn that gut instincts are true, emotions are real and logic is insightful.

Contribution by Christy Camp, RYTT