Metta "Lovingkindness" Restorative Yoga |
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“My friend made me come with her, and I was skeptical because I thought it sounded like a long time to be still. I could not believe how quickly the time passed and how rested and peaceful I felt for days afterwards. We spent just the right amount of time in the ‘shapes,’ as Jan calls them, and movement in between.” |
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“I liked how we didn’t actually stay completely still, but moved in and out of different shapes throughout the workshop, with each position focused on relaxing a different part of my body until by the end of the time, I felt completely quiet, peaceful and at ease in my body, and in my mind too.” |
“I actually did not notice the effects until a day later when my muscles ached and I knew it was from having been so completely released and relaxed from their normally tight and bound up condition.” |
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"I was so totally relaxed and released, I felt like a noodle." |
“My mind never shuts off and I thought I would have a hard time being still, but Jan taught us some breathing practices that helped me to focus my mind, plus sometimes she read things to us, and other times would explain what a pose benefits were, and she seemed to sense perfectly when there should just be silence.”
“Jan said that this practice is cumulative and that we would notice in just one session how the effects from each pose add to the ones that follow, and also that from one session to the next I would experience that cumulative effect. She is right. I have come to many restorative yoga sessions and see a huge difference in how I handle what life throws at me, and I am more relaxed in my body than I ever was before I began making restorative yoga a part of my regular practice."
It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come through effort, control or discipline."
~ J. Krishnamurti
Beat the Blues ~ Restore & Rebalance
