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| What are the best Yoga poses for opening up emotionally? |
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Location: Upstate NY | Om, You will find that any pose that works the hips...... i.e. Kapotasana (pidgeon pose), Bhekasana (frog pose), Trikonasana (triangle) just to name a couple........ Please be aware, that as I have seen in my experience when there is an emotional release, the floodgates will open. Metta, Ravi |
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| Sit in lotus and then watch 'Steel Magnolias'.
If that won't do it, then nothing will. 
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| I do not understand this question.
Musa08 - 2007-09-11 6:18 AM
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Location: Upstate NY | Om Neelji, I have seen people experience a overwhelming release of a their emotions in several instances when the hips really start to open up......... From what I was told and taught, that the hips are one of the problem areas that residual and stored emotions are prone to be stored .... once a person starts to open this area up... all of these emotions come flooding in Metta, Ravi
Edited by Ravi 2007-09-11 12:16 PM
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| There are no "best" yoga poses to open up emotionally. Each person is unique in their physiology, their history, their coping and thus their emotional storage varies. Some people write more to their pelvic while others withdraw their heart. It would be foolish for me as a teacher to tell YOU where you would have release.
And frankly it is only the wwillingness to release rather than the actual pursuit or seeking of it that manifests the release itself.
You will have to discover what poses peel the onion of you for you.
Though generally speaking it is the deeper parts of the body where the emotions really hold. So you are more likely to have such en experience working the psoas than you would working the gastrocnemius. |
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| Fantastic Statement!!! Hey Purna, I request you to change your avataar to something Divine. Something to match this kind of fantastic wisdom.
purnayoga - 2007-09-11 1:32 PM
And frankly it is only the wwillingness to release rather than the actual pursuit or seeking of it that manifests the release itself.
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| yes, i agree with this.
For some people inversions.
I had my "emotional opening" chanting.. so it's very individual. |
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| All avatars are yoga. However, I will consider your request.
It is the Law of Duality. Contradictory but comlementary avatars.
kulkarnn - 2007-09-11 10:48 AM
Fantastic Statement!!! Hey Purna, I request you to change your avataar to something Divine. Something to match this kind of fantastic wisdom.
purnayoga - 2007-09-11 1:32 PM
And frankly it is only the wwillingness to release rather than the actual pursuit or seeking of it that manifests the release itself.
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Location: Upstate NY | http://yoga.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=25612&posts=1 |
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| Gordon- FWIW- I love your avatar.. I don't quite associate it with you yet, I got used to the serious guy you had before. 
Ravi- for me, it's hip openers. I had a crazy experience last year at the conference I went to. I inadvertently signed up for three hip opening workshops- one was inversions (which they started with an hour of hip openers), one was Shiva Rea's Fluid Power, and the other was Arm Balances..
Anyhoo, Shiva Rea's was the third of these and I completely broke down into tears by the end of the practice. I hadn't realized that I was still grieving my miscarriage earlier in the year. I thought I had let it go... and I hadn't. I left after that workshop, went back to my room and cried and cried. It was such a HUGE release for me. I've heard that you hold anger and grief in your hips.. anger I don't know about.. but I was definitely holding on to some grief |
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| Dana suggested I needed something friendlier and like any good yogi I had to consider her position and statement. This one actually looks like me while the other is Booker T. Washington. Seems he hardly smiled. Then again, what was there to smile about?
I felt his stance on education reflected my own.
Now it is time to move on.
joscmt - 2007-09-11 7:30 PM
Gordon- FWIW- I love your avatar.. I don't quite associate it with you yet, I got used to the serious guy you had before.
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| Musa08 - 2007-09-10 8:18 PM
What are the best Yoga poses for opening up emotionally?
Asana opening emotions are a myth, the root of emotions are of the mind. Understand the workings of the mind you will understand your emotional reactions. Don't buy into this "Asana can cure you emotionally" even if you get some effect these are only are bandade solutions. Its a waste of time ....... prevention is far better than the cure.
Edited by planthelper 2007-09-12 2:14 AM
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| Backbends, hip openers, throat openers.... basically anything that opens me, well, opens me. |
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| For me chest openers are also good, camel, fish, and a double whammy, pigeon, opening hips and chest. I agree with Purna though that you have to be willing to release. |
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| I definitely agree with needing to be willing to have a release.. that's for sure!
gordon- Ahhhh... Booker T Washington.. all along I was wondering who that was. Guess I could have asked, huh?
You new one seems right in the middle of the other two.. a good fit, I think |
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| In the spirit of new avatars... I've updated my pic of my cowfish, Tex... he's a big boy now! |
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| Yes! its is the 'willing' that is essential in emotional releases....and not much to do with any activity, If it is in fact the will that releases emotion; you could do it anywhere, even on the toilet.  |
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| planthelper - 2007-09-13 1:53 AM Yes! its is the 'willing' that is essential in emotional releases....and not much to do with any activity, If it is in fact the will that releases emotion; you could do it anywhere, even on the toilet. True, while willingness is an essential ingredient toward achieving an emotional release, for many of us, that may not be enough. Just wanting something and being open to it doesn't automatically cause it to happen. It's with this perspective that I consider the body to be the gateway toward facilitating an emotional release -- again, not for all people, but for many. It may sound like splitting hairs, but I believe this to be a big distinction. Just assuming the attitude of willingness can be very difficult as a total abstraction to the physical. Then again, for some people, the "physical" act of "softening" is inaccessible to them as well. I'm not saying it's a chicken and the egg sort of scenario, but that both elements, physical access and attitude of willingness (i.e. opening to grace) are necessary for the type of opening we're discussing here. They're each both chicken and egg at the same time. Consolidation of opposites into one. Yoga. |
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| Amen OM!
Edited by joscmt 2007-09-13 8:31 AM
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