Today, I'm going to show you five little exercises that are not only good for you, but can also greatly improve your yoga practice.
Stop all this drama...
All of life is one big play.
YOUR life too.
And you know what? You have a choice.
You can sit there, watching the same tragedy – or whatever performance is on – over and over again.
Or you can end the show and take a look behind the scenes.
See clearly what is really happening – in your life.
And who knows, maybe you’ll even change the program.
Maybe you wonder now: What’s all this theater talk about? 🙂
Well, there is a scientific model from cognitive science:
Global Workspace Theory (GWT).
It explains our consciousness – what we experience in the moment – as a theater.
In this model, at the center of the theater there is a stage. It represents what we are aware of right now: thoughts, feelings, inner images. Only what steps into the spotlight comes into our awareness.
The spotlights represent our attention. Some things are highlighted, others remain in the dark.
The audience is the subconscious. Countless processes in the background watch what appears in the light, they comment, influence, but remain hidden.
And behind the stage are the sets and the director. Memories and neural networks provide the material, decide what comes on stage, and steer the flow.
And if you now wonder what this has to do with Yoga – and Naked Yoga – let me explain.
In Yoga we learn that we live under an illusion (Maya).
We mistakenly identify with the actors, with the stage – with our thoughts and feelings.
Yoga is about looking at the endless play inside our head from another perspective. Taking a look behind the scenes.
We learn to direct the spotlight consciously – to give attention to what truly nourishes us.
With insight and recognition, a deep calm spreads. We stop taking the ongoing drama in our head so seriously, smile more often – and know that we can change the program at any time.
That is true freedom.
Naked Yoga helps you drop every role, mask, and set piece. To see who you really are.
👉 Stop the theater. Start being free – naked, real, alive!
A small parable of the inner theater – for you to reflect on:
Imagine inside your head stands a magnificent theater.
The stage is brightly lit, and actors keep coming on: a thought of breakfast, an annoyance about taxes, a memory of an old love, a plan for the future.
The audience in the dark is vast – countless unconscious processes, memories, instincts, all watching attentively. But only the actors in the spotlight are visible to you – that is your consciousness.
One day, the theatergoer “You” realizes he is completely caught in the plays.
When a tragedy is performed, he suffers.
When a comedy is played, he laughs.
He is convinced: “This is me!”
But then an old wise man comes by. He whispers:
“You are not the actors.
You are not even the stage.
You are the space in which all of this unfolds.”
So the visitor begins the Yoga path, meditates …
First he learns to steer the spotlight of attention – sometimes toward the breath, sometimes the body. Soon he notices: the stage calms down, the actors appear less often.
He realizes: the vrittis, the movements of the mind, begin to settle. The mind grows still and clear.
And one day it happens:
The stage is empty.
The light fades.
And he recognizes:
He was never the spectator, never the actor, never the director.
He was always only the silent, boundless awareness – the theater itself, without beginning or end.
Immortal. Limitless. Free.
