Wandering Mind

Well, back in the studio, back to my own practice. The Student came in this morning and we slowed down and worked through all the transitions. There's a part of me that really likes this stopping at Mari D. As I take a little extra time to deepen and understand that pose, it allows me to deepen and understand my whole practice before that pose. I have a feeling that this will change my practice significantly as it requires me to truly observe what I am doing and not move on until I have dissected it, understand it, and put it back together. And with the extra time I have from not doing the remaining poses it allows me to put that time into the others.


Yoga Sutra 1:18

By the firmly convinced practice of the complete cessation of the mental modifications, the impressions only remain. This is the other samadhi [asamprajnata or non-distinguished].

There are many things that one could pull from this sutra, for me, today, I found that the idea I most connected with was that in order to move on towards samadhi, I must understand myself more deeply in order to release the idea of the self, the "impressions" that still remain. Only through making the effort to understand myself will I realize what I am not.