I have been approaching my practice with dedication and integrity this year, knowing that I have to re-establish both neutrality and strength within my physical body.
Extending my awareness throughout my body, evenly distributed with softness and passivity, but, with the best will in the world I reach areas within my body that seem to defy my efforts to clear, and this creates a tendency for the area to be even more isolated, a bit of a catch 22 situation.
So, when this happens, or when I take notice that it has happened, it is time to seek expert advice, and not necessarily from a yogi. I choose to visit a therapist, trained in both Bowen Therapy and Emmett Technique, a man called Ray Smith, and this is his website - Feelsbetter Therapies
And what he does is quite astonishing for a yoga practitioner. He helps to identify the emotional aspects associated with the individual blockages and obstruction, and he will explain where these are within the body, and with a combination of manipulation and healing will penetrate and soften these areas, in a manner that might have taken 3 months of yoga to reach, thus enabling the yoga practice to be eased through the change, rather than the yoga practice causing the change.
It does, in effect, create a doorway through which one can travel with yoga, and once traversed, can be maintained through practice, not to return again. I will say that I do not have this treatment often, but when I feel my body burdened with emotional backpacks and burdens, it is Ray who lightens my load, explaining aspects of my physicality that I was completely unaware of.
The man with X-Ray hands...
Written and published by Mark Golding - THE ORGANIC HOME
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