My flatmate recently asked me a very stunning question, which she asks herself every evening: When did you feel connected to the divine today? Just that day I had taken on a new job as yoga-teacher and had been really worked up and nervous beforehand.
But the first class went really really well and my favourite moment - which is also the moment when I felt connected to the divine - was when everybody was lying in Savasana. I knew, I had done a good job and I was happy and grateful. Someone once said, God works through you as you - and that's how I felt! It was brilliant!
I also feel this connection to the divine when I do yoga - it is after all a spiritual practice! To me, yoga is a way of praying with my entire being. A way of being involved with myself, others and God.
It seems to be a strange concept for some, to "feel connected with the divine", but what f.ex. about the feeling of gratefulness? Did you have moments in your life, when you wanted to thank somebody, but there was no person to thank? That's when we instinctively feel, that there is something bigger than us.
How do you feel about yoga as being a form of prayer? I'd love to read your experiences! :-)
PS: pics to follow :-)
Im doing yoga alone at home, I was never frequenting any yoga course and I read no yoga book, all asanas I do are given to me on tantra course where we practice asanas couple of times and never again. I was never told about sacred or divine part of yoga... but as time go on - yoga become for me very sacred ritual, naturally I started to feel deep deep respect to energies which are showing up while being in asanas and I feel connected to divine energies while in asanas and through this connections comes to me understanding of my life, my feelings and what is happening in my life. No words, no book, just this connection - and thats why I feel divine respect for yoga.
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