Yoga helps love!
Writing by bwerner on Monday, 12 of May , 2008 at 3:35 pm
The discipline can help to blossom new loves and strengthen existing ones.
Clarifying wrongly relationship
Years ago, for an interview, I asked the Buddhist teacher Namkhai Norbu why, according to him, in the West many couples end up with divorce, why is it so difficult to have a serene life as couple. I expect, from this important Lama reincarnate from the tradition Bon, a response highly spiritual, which had to do with values and ideals. He, however, wise, replied: “Because the people arrive at evening as if they were cards curled up, so stressed from work, by economics, from management of the many commitments that they have no more availability to listen to the other “.
Remove stress, facilitate the dialogue
The first way in which yoga can help the lives of couples is just that, because the practice has the ability to alleviate the burden of excessive stress, to put fatigue and irritation away, bringing calm and listening skills. “When my wife went to the gym - tells a manager for 40 years - she returned tired and irritable. Now, she frequents a yoga course, comes back more serene and our everyday life benefits it. “The sharing of the practice - says Andrea, a Venetian teacher of yoga boyfriend of a student he met during a spiritual retire - has created immediate strong meeting points.
Even our moments of conflict become a moment to put into practice yoga. When we have some confrontation, she tells me: “calm, let’s get into a higher plane.” Referring to the five “plans” (kosha) of the “Upanishads”, she suggests: “let us set into vijna kosha (the cover of conscience-consciousness).” Then we work a little ‘on the breath, we reconcile and then we can talk calmly. I think it is an added value to have a companion who practices yoga.
Reciprocal respect, Giorgio and Elizabeth, fellow yoga and life companions since 40 years, found (November’69) the Yoga Academy in Rome, where they teach still. “Yoga - explains Giorgio - offers the couples high benefits. In the spiritual journey, is said: “if you want to change the world begin by yourself.” In a couple who practice in mutual respect, everyone can see in the other their master. This creates a situation of greater consciousness that awaken the proper capacity. This proceeding together creates enormous benefits and multiplies the individual forces, together one is much stronger. Yoga is also a form of energetically enrichment for the couple, through the rituals of sexual union Tantra (maithuna) and the recitation of mantra. Thanks to these techniques can the partners enter the same spiritual wavelength. A family founded on these bases will be blessed by harmony, joy, beauty and happiness at all levels, and the children will be bearer of vibrations of very high love. For yoga we are not consist solely of physical body, we have many bodies, also a body made of happiness: ananda Mayan kosha. “After so many years of Wedding - confided a teacher married for thirty years could occur a fair wear of the gestures of love, but the emotional, spiritual and physical opening that yoga gives to sexuality permits to live it with renewed creativity, in an almost mystical dimension.
Assist the Eros
The Hatha Yoga improves the erotic life, because it increases the sensitivity of the body, and the ability to perceive and give pleasure. This is the second major advantage that Yoga can give a couple. Years ago, Carla the Turin teacher, writer and journalist, a person of deep sensitivity, told me the case of a pair of her students that however estimate and love one the other were unhappy because unsatisfied sexually. However, with the constancy to practice, gradually alleviate from the frustration. Their bodies became less rigid, more secure, more open, and lighter and with the passing of months increased the small gestures of mutual affection until, one evening, and she saw them leave hand in hand with a smile in the face so open as not to leave no doubt that their old problems had been overcome.
Common Aspirations
There is also third aspect that is very important for the life of the couples: the sharing of spiritual values. “If none of us two would practice - says Roberta, 30 years of Piedmont, a student of yoga who is in love of his teacher and married him - I am convinced that we would have meet the same and that our relationship would work equally well. It’s not just yoga that unites us, but especially the love for each other. Thanks to the practice of this ancient discipline, however, we live in a larger size, more airy, we feel to be part of something bigger of us, to share values that support us and give us strength. Renate and Moiz, founders of the Raja Yoga association of Milan, have just published the first part of their remarks to “Yoga Sutras” of Patañjali, as testimony of thirty years of teaching in common. As couple, they have been together for forty years. We are approached to yoga through a parallel path. The same basic sensitivity brought them, individually and together, to recognize in the same masters. “For us was it critical - they say - that in yoga they has been able to express themselves and flourish an aspiration, a research for both.
When it becomes obstacle Roberto, a doctor specialized in neurology and psychiatry, teacher in yoga training courses for teachers of the school of Yoga Ratna of Gabriella, asked the students, most already yoga teachers, to bring their experience. “It emerged - he told - that if only one member of the couple is dedicated to yoga arise difficulties. During practice, one of the two isolates and this can create doubts and apprehensions in the partners.
In addition, yoga involves different ways to consider the time, which may create misunderstandings. When, instead, yoga is shared all is good ‘. In Indian culture a married woman cannot receive a personal mantra by a teacher, because the spiritual bonds that are created between teacher and student can engrave fairly subtle on the psyche, causing changes that could bring away from her husband and shared common values. “Yoga will change you, it’s an evolutionary path” said to us students Gabriella, reminding us how sometimes to go forward one must leave what he has passed. Yoga as a means of knowledge helps and strengthens the couples with a good basic affinity, based on love, trust and confidence, while putting in question the wrong reports, not evolutionary. Brings to recognize where can manifest and deploy our profound nature, our kind of love.
In the myth
The first couple: Shiva and Parvati
In Indian mythology, even the highest icon of yoga, Shiva, the mighty god, the great ascetic, the perfect yogi, does not resist to love, particularly in courting the beautiful Parvati, the daughter of the mountain. He, covered with ash on the slopes of the Himalaya, spent his days immersed in deepest meditation, not even noticed that wonderful girl who was crazy for him. Therefore, she, but to make him fall in love, devoted to austere practices of yoga and transforms the fire of passion into the fire of spiritual research. Shiva, admired and seduced, assigns, grants and even they bride.
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