In this video, I use an asana to show you a technique that you can use at any time and that will help you to improve your flexibility.
The drama of the poor father (and most people)😧
In yoga, avidya means ignorance.
It is a cause of suffering in life.
Does this mean that we don't know enough and therefore often suffer?
Do we need to make more effort and learn more?
Far from it!
Yoga, as part of the millennia-old wisdom teachings, wants to help us and show us a way to cope better with ourselves and life.
In yoga, knowledge is an obstacle to knowledge.
We have learned in school to work hard to retain the material.
For a large part of our lives, we have worked hard to acquire a lot of terms, ideas and concepts.
And we sincerely believe that this accumulated knowledge is useful for our lives. That with this baggage we are well equipped for this thing we call life.
Big mistake:
Your knowledge may make you rich, but it will never make you happy and rich inside.
For that, you would have to know that you know nothing.
That's why yoga is more about becoming free from the burden of knowledge, ideas and concepts that we have acquired over the course of our lives.
Yoga means freedom. Not being at the mercy of our thoughts and feelings.
That is why it is so important that we learn to listen again.
When we listen in yoga classes or read something, it is not to know more, but to free ourselves from our old concepts and ideas.
Otherwise we will be like the poor father in the following story.
Once upon a time, a merchant lived alone with his son. The boy's mother had died and so the boy was very dear and precious to the father.
He loved him very much and believed he could not live without him.
One day he was out on business when bandits attacked the village, burned everything down and kidnapped the children.
When the father returned, he was completely distraught. He searched everywhere for his boy, but could not find him. In a state of utter despair, he discovered the charred corpse of a child. And he thought this body was that of his child. He believed his child was dead.
Full of despair, he threw himself on the floor, beat his chest, tore out his hair and reproached himself for leaving his boy at home alone.
After crying day and night, he took the child's body and organized a cremation ceremony.
He put the ashes in a wonderful, velvety bag and from then on always wore it on a chain over his heart. He loved him so much that he always wanted to have him with him.
What he didn't know was that the boy had managed to escape his kidnappers.
One night, the boy arrived at his father's house and knocked on the door at around two o'clock.
Like almost every night, the poor father lay sleepless and crying in bed, clutching the bag of ashes tightly in his arms.
“Who's knocking at my door?” he called out.
“It's me, father, your son.”
The father thought that someone was playing a trick on him, as he thought his son was dead.
"Go away, naughty child. Don't disturb people at this time of night. Go home. My son is dead."
The boy kept trying, but the man refused to recognize him as his son. Finally, the boy had to give up and left.
And the father lost him forever.
Perhaps you are thinking: “The father should have recognized his son by his voice.”
But don't we often feel the same way?
We believe things to be true and cling to them so tightly that we can no longer let go.
What things in your life do you believe to be true?
We are so caught up in our views and beliefs that we stand in the way of our own happiness.
The way out of this drama:
Yoga and especially naked yoga.
Here you learn to observe yourself and your mind - and in this way free yourself from the prison of your thoughts and ideas.
What is the first step?
By taking off all your clothes, getting completely naked, you symbolically shed everything that supposedly defines you.
As a child you come into this world completely naked and in naked yoga you come a little closer to this free and carefree state.
Now you are open to what really is. Liberated from ignorance.
People suffer and cause suffering for themselves and others out of ignorance.
Jesus also knew this when he said while hanging on the cross: “Lord, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
The truth is:
You are good, life is good and wonderful. 🥰🥰🥰
You just have to learn to see it and let go of your old beliefs.
I'll help you with that!😊
