Some things about the yoga are so obvious that any garden variety vegetable might be able to comment. With that note like a cardinal’s call, I offer you some garden variety comments on our yoga practices.

Compared to the Mind, the Body remains steady and consistent. The Mind might have a thousand thoughts pass through as fast as a flag flapping in the wind, but when our eyes look down at the foot, it looks roughly the same if not exactly the same as it was an hour ago. The same toes, the same heel and arch, the same pads, pores, nails, and fur. The body basically stays the same.

The body holds a range of memory and pattern.

For example, not only does the body hold implicit memory of our total ancient evolutionary process as human beings, the body holds the patterns of our personal and daily experiences The body is our slate upon which experiences are etched. Our yoga postures and breath read the etchings of experience written in the body.

Each one of us may share basic anatomical features but your experience is unique to you. The yoga practice of posture and breath (asana and pranayama) direct the anatomical features, our bio-mechanics and basic functions, but how you experience the practice will be unique to you.

The purpose is not to imitate a perfect pose which does not exist. The purpose is to use the pose and the breathing to discover, to identify what locks and unlocks, what opens and closes, what binds and unbinds. If we do then we enter into the very rhythms of the mind and more subtle functions of life.

So, let’s breathe, make three planes of functional movement of the spine, open the gates of the lymphatic plumbing.

I’m posting this tonight. Early in the morning I’ll drive my sire to a cataract surgery. This video should go live even as I sit in the waiting room outside my dad’s eyeball cut and vision repair. The magic of technology.

Thanks for letting this common garden vegetable share some yoga observations with you. If for some reason this video does not read, then pls check out the recorded session for last Tuesday.

Let me hear from you.

J