Savasana: A true art

Reflection

Savasana, the final pose of any decent yoga practice is the place where you reflect upon your entire practice as it comes before your eyes from a distant cloud.

Savasana is one of the most important poses in yoga, reflecting true peace as the culmination of your practice.

This final resting pose, otherwise known as Corpse Pose, is a pose in which to wrap the fruits of your labors, your joys of movement, and your love for your body.

Wring out toxins

After moving the precious prana within your body through movements that flow through you, twists that wring out toxins, and peaceful moments in between that take your breath away, savasana is a time to celebrate and smile within. It's a place for stillness.

Celebrate

Celebrate your life force. You may have a tendency to ignore it as you move along in your busy day.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

~ Lao-Tzu

Savasana does not act alone. It is the end result of that which came before it. It is your pure state, seen most easily after clearing out impediments in the body, mind and heart, especially with a seasoned teacher who can lead you eloquently through it.

Meditative state of samadhi

The meditative state created becomes like a cloud that you can trust and call your own. As you wind down your practice in a true state of peace, your final rest has the power to bring you to samadhi, the 8th limb of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

Samadhi is a non-dualistic state of consciousness in which you become one with all that surrounds you, and all of your thoughts connected outside of yourself, in which the mind becomes still, concentrated on one point though the person remains conscious.

If you are lucky you will feel as if a body floating in the ocean, weightless and free.

Namaste.

© 2010 Yoga Robin^®