Do you think about your vinyasa method as your ‘exercise’ or exercises course? Or maybe you believe it’s a sweatier variation of yoga with no reflection element? Eddie Modestini, a long time student of K. Pattabhi Jois as well as B.K.S. Iyengar that leads YJ’s online program, Vinyasa 101: The Basics of Flow, debunks these mistaken beliefs and also reveals 5 obscure truths about vinyasa yoga. (Register for this important guide to vinyasa yoga exercise BELOW.)

1. It’s not about exercise.

Vinyasa yoga exercise is literally defined as an intelligent sequence of positions, but many people equate it with the capacity to sweat or ‘yogacize,’ which draws a great deal of people to it. Vinyasa yoga exercise is a really subtle, beautiful, introspective method, and also workout could be a side advantage. Yoga exercise has to do with obtaining to recognize on your own better and also finding out how you can love yourself.

2. It’s all about the organs.

It’s appropriate to concentrate on extending and enhancing in the start of a vinyasa yoga method. Once your muscles are open, the method transforms towards the joints. And when the joints are open, you could access the organs. Vinyasa yoga has a lot to do with enhancing blood circulation and also reducing congestion in the organs.

3. It’s a reflection in motion.

Meditation is focusing the mind, and vinyasa yoga exercise focuses the mind because it gives you something to concentrate your mind on. It’s a dynamic meditation. Whether it’s the breath, the motion, the bandhas, or the asanas, there’s an extremely solid mental component to vinyasa yoga exercise method. Vinyasa yoga exercise can be critical in maintaining and also focusing your whole life.

4. It’s a Hatha yoga exercise breathing system.

In vinyasa yoga, the breathing is with the nose. For each and every movement, there is a breath. As an example, if you’re raising your arm, you don’t take 2 breaths to lift your arm. The price of the breath and also the rate of the motion need to be synchronized, so it’s a slow-moving, also, smooth, breathing as well as a slow-moving, concentrated training of the arm. This is really challenging in the beginning and it helps focus the mind, because you really have to think of it.

5. There’s a drishti (gaze) for each pose.

There are 9 drishtis or gazing factors in Hatha yoga (which are also made use of in vinyasa yoga), and each posture has an extremely specific drishti. Yoga exercise has to do with listening and also carrying out a task. Each pose has lots of tasks, and among them is the drishti. Looking in a particular instructions assists to create the meditation for every pose.

Eddie Modestini is the co-director as well as co-owner of Maya Yoga Workshop in Maui. Register right here for Modestini’s Vinyasa 101 course, which covers the makeup of the back, ways to adapt asana for different type of body, and also much more.