The
yoga that I teach is based upon harmonics. All postures make distinctive
shapes. When the body relaxes and descends into the essential nature of
the posture, the physical being resonates at the frequency of that shape.
The relationship between different body parts form the harmonics, which,
if translated into sound, would be recognisably musical.
When
I make some of the sounds present in the harmonics of a posture, it helps
both the physical and subtle bodies to align with that frequency. The
posture becomes more familiar and easeful to the physical body because
the cells vibrate sympathetically with my voice. Ultimately, this leads
to cosmic consciousness, not because of my voice, but because each posture
is a gateway to a realm of vibration.
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linear mind doesn't know what to do with the sound and finds it difficult
to structure the experience or response according to learnt patterns.
This is marvellously helpful in giving people an opportunity to experience
themselves just as they are in that moment. Often an individual will
experience a certain sound, tone or tune as familiar. This is meaningful
to the feeling state, as in 'it makes me feel good/ at peace/ known/
encouraged' and so on, but doesn't make much sense to the reasoning
self. Then there comes thatthat rather deliciously liberating state
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I work one-to-one with people I use my voice to give expression
to mental and emotional trauma imprinted into their body. Thus the
physical body lightens. I teach people how to use their own voice
to liberate themselves in this way, not to re-experience or dramatise
the trauma, simply to let its imprint flow out and away. Habitual
responses weaken. Out of that arises a true beingness, of the moment,
unprejudiced, peaceful and still. Taking no position, the being
allows. That is love.
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One
of the most physically inhibiting factors in contemporary life is
self-consciousness. We might do rather well at self-acceptance in
the privacy of our own space, but in the presence of others, self-judgment,
comparison, fear of being judged, and found wanting, rises consciously
or unconsciously. So we adopt a posture of self-promotion or defence.
Working with yoga, with the undeniable truth of how the body speaks,
in the presence of others, helps to heal this. |
The
yoga classes are limited to five or six people. In time, there grows trust
in the loving, peaceful presence of others. We give each other feedback
on how each of us receives a body's beingness in a posture. Finding that
you are truly known without feeling vulnerable produces a deep and gentle
self-confidence. The physical body relaxes its defending or promoting
postures. That's when yoga, the physical union of individual and cosmic
consciousness, begins.
Click
here for information on Judith's yoga classes.
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