Yoga isms

I was watching Inhale and doing yoga yesterday. It comes on Oxygen Network ... at 6 am so I'd suggest DVRing it and doing yoga, like, later ....
The teacher Steve Ross is hilarious and insightful.

So here were two of his insights that stuck out to me from the show I DVRed.

1. To slow the mind down it is well to slow the breath down. The mind and the breath are interconnected. When the mind is racing, slowing the breath down (especially your exhales) will slow the mind down as well.

- I know what youre thinking. Its either freaking genius! Or *yawn. But its so true. The body hardly ever lies, even when we try to deceive others (egs, saying "oh Im not tired" when you are ... or "Im not upset, honey".)

2. During savasana, Steve Ross asked us (well, not me in particular, but the studio group in CA) if we could find where our body ended and space began. And I couldnt! Steve Ross goes off on this thing about being formless. Growing up, children often pretend to be planes, automobiles, trains, ships. What makes them wrong? And the only truth we know is that we exist, the rest is just belief.

- When your eyes are closed its logical that our perceptions/view of the world change. Then you can go into this even deeper. Think how different the world is with and without sight. Now think about new "senses" you might get when you die. Maybe the world will be our eternal resting place, but we'll just have different senses opened up to us to view the world in a completely different light.