Taking Yoga Off Your Mat

Set an intention on the mat that corresponds to your life you may have experienced a yoga class where the teacher invites you to set an intention at the beginning of the session which you then revisit in the final meditation.

Taking yoga off your mat. It can also be very important to your life off the mat giving you the tools you need to be the best version of you possible in your job in your relationships and to yourself. Just like in yoga class breathe when uncomfortable sensations fear anger sadness and so on arise. Taking yoga off your mat is a metaphor for practicing actions and attitudes that bring body mind and spirit into alignment and help you remain focused calm and non reactive in the face of life s inevitable challenges. Taking yoga off the mat literally and figuratively can be incredible.

Indeed for most yogis the mat is a sanctuary but the treadmill of everyday living can understandably make us lose sight of this fact. One way is to practice accepting reality as it is not the way you want it to be. What works on the mat works off the mat aruni reminds us right away. So here s a pragmatic eyp guide to taking yoga off the mat with no frills attached.

If it works on the mat it also works in traffic with your teenager and with your boss when stressors arise aruni says we can choose to ride the waves and the prescription goes like this. There are countless ways of doing this but here are 3 really simple but really effective ways of taking yoga off your mat and into your daily life. Sometimes reality makes us feel uncomfortable or frustrated. We forget that yoga even if it is one more activity actually helps us through the rest of what awaits us.

Breathing takes us from fight flight or freeze the sympathetic nervous system aruni explains. How altruistic yoga you re truly refreshing. It asks nothing of you other than to partake to learn to practice and it asks this in hopes of your own self betterment. Practicing yoga is an offering.

Well those are both good things to do but the phrase and the teachings of yoga have a much deeper meaning and here are just a few ways you can take your yoga off your mat. As you learn the breathing techniques to help support and guide you through difficult poses take this same concept out into the world with you. Practice can feel like another thing to check off the list or squeeze into a long day. Connect with your breath.

What happens when the peace you experience on your yoga mat is disrupted by life s ins and outs its ups and downs. Breathing is the most important aspect of life yet how often do we connect with our breath outside of a yoga class. Here are 5 ways you can begin your own self study.