#yoga-asanas

#yoga-asanas

Learning yoga asanas is like learning a new language-the language of the body. Like American Sign Language, the asanas speak in a three-dimensional language whose nuances are difficult to convey through the linear mode of ordinary speech. The total movement of an asana is composed of many smaller movements, all occurring simultaneously, like the swirling eddies and cross-currents that contribute to the overall flow of a river.

Any pose is a laboratory, an opportunity to access the deepest streams of life flowing within us. For us to penetrate a pose this deeply, we must know the right questions to ask of it and the right experiments to conduct. But knowledge alone will not take us to the core of an asana. We must also approach it with reverence and absorption.

In Hinduism, they are Brahma, the Creator; Vishnu, the Preserver; and Shiva, the Destroyer. The combined actions of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva enable life in the universe to manifest.