Morning Practice: Listening to the cues of asana

Brittaney Herbertson
Feb 4, 2019
2 min read

Practicing yoga can have many different intended outcomes, as many outcomes as there are people practicing. For whatever sparks you, here's an important part to my practice...

WORDS

I'm a language inquirer (self labeled) -- I'm not an English major by school standards and I've never studied past literature 12 BUT in my own way I study words. The way people use them, intend them and even misuse them. I search words in paper encyclopedias as much as I do the online dictionary. I want to know all about the word so that I can embody it and make the word come to life - Every word tells its own story just as a drop of water is the entire ocean and just like each pose in asana creates majestic flow.

Teaching classes is precious to me because it's my words that people listen to and follow. I made it that way, which is why, in studio classes, I wouldn't demonstrate the shapes or flow with what I was saying. I take great care to find my preferred balance of physical alignment words to using language which promotes self-direction. I want you to follow me in practice as inspiration yet I hope you're somehow on your own journey. Can we do both at once? I truly believe in asana practice, we can.

The video below is not a word for word script. You won't be able to press play and follow along to a glorious flow. This video is me talking you through the sequence and some particular physical things. Think of it as a lecture style video. SOmething to watch, and learn from but it's not directly applicable.. You have your own work to do to make it come alive.