Its goal is to remove the obstacles that prevent your true nature from expressing itself. Yoga philosophy says that you cannot force wholeness, as it is already there.
As human beings, we have certain views about how life, people or things are as a result of our past experiences. In yoga, these recycled thought patterns are called samskaras. BodyMindLife yoga teacher training teaches you how to unwind these patterns and remove the obstacles that temporarily interrupt the flow of prana (life force).
When these thoughts (beliefs and attitudes) are repeated over and over again they resist the flow of prana as it is presented in the moment. The ways we do this as a body/mind system are to:
• Tighten our muscles and consequently turn off other muscles
• Constrict our breathing
• Hold back our expression, either verbal or through body posture
When this happens, we need to restore pulsation to our bodies and encourage the movement of prana. Our mind is the most potent force in our lives. It determines through our beliefs and attitudes (patterning) every aspect of our lives. These stories and patterns are largely unconscious so our first role as a teacher is to bring awareness to these patterns. As we embody this understanding as yoga teachers, we are then able to pass that knowledge on to our students.