Practicing yoga poses with these three principles and enhance care, health, energy and joy. You can silence the chatter of the mind. Make these three principles to their peers. Play with them in the favorite yoga pose and bring new mind to pose.

The gravity, breathing, and the wave are peers. Scaravelli Vanda, who studied for many years with BKS Iyengar discovered that by focusing on these three friends at the same time, the practice of asanas was no effort. We listen and work with the body rather than imposing our ideas on the body. This is the gift of Vanda with the world.

Our body language speaks of feelings in the pairs of opposites: heat, cold, heaviness and lightness, ease pain, etc. To play with gravity that deepens our connection to the earth, and feels the opposite effect, as a upward extension within our bodies. While sitting, slightly raise your connection by pressing the feet and the automatic response of the organism to gravity. How do you feel this recovery? The conscious connection to the land lays a solid foundation. This is crucial. The shoulders, sitting bones, knees, feet, anywhere on the body is in contact with the ground should provide postural stability.


Breathing should be natural and without effort or tension as to hold the pose. Feel its movement within the body. Is the attitude really out? Does the constant movement affect the stability of the position? With each exhalation is not liberation, every breath – expansion. We present, hear and feel the pose grows and develops spontaneously. Assist in an intelligent way, as smoothly extends to the fingertips or the creation of space for breathing and releasing unnecessary tension.

This movement of fluids in the body creates the wave. It passes over the spine. Imagine that the stem of a fern leaf support. The column responds to touch the ball with the softness wave. This supersedes any tendency to be rigid. Provides comfort and ease, the essential factors in any position. Smooth upper body, lower body firm – feel and balance of the pairs of opposites.

The wave adds length of the spine when the foundation is secure. The space extends into the vertebrae, releasing any tension in the spinal cord. The nervous system is healthier for it, the communication to the muscles and organs more clearly.

The postural stability rests on the base – which is on the ground, and the lightness and freedom in the wave created by the breath. Keep the three inseparable companions as the practice of yoga poses. It is a way to experience the spirit of yoga.

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