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Yoga with Dr. Melissa West 326 Awakening to Your True Self Series, The Six Perfections: Morality

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Channel: Yoga with Melissa · 2016 · Howto & Style

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In today’s yoga class we engage breath practices or pranayama, yoga postures or asana to bring awareness of the way that morality comes from the inside out as a result of the purifying and balancing qualities of our yoga and meditation practice. We begin with alternate nostril breathing or nadi shodhana to calm and center our mind and bring us back to the present moment, purifying the nadis (the subtle energy channels) ensuring a smooth flow of prana (life force throughout your entire body. We then extend this through breath and yoga postures feeling morality move from the inside out, creating a sensation of flexibility and openness. In this class we also do several vinyasas (moving with breath) to feel that sense of growing from the inside out. Our standing postures, all variations on Warrior One or Virabhadrasana One open the doors of awareness, clarity and compassion. Natarajasana or Dancer pose opens us to the grace and dignity of right moral conduct. With our inversion, legs up the wall or viparita karini we can rest in the teachings with discernment. Our final postures a twist and a forward fold continue with the theme of growing organically from the inside out. 

This week’s class continues with our Awakening Your True Self Series and the Six Paramitas or the Six Perfections. The Six Perfections are a way to cultivate a life of compassion. Today we are reflecting on the second of the six perfections or six paramitas, sila paramita or morality.  Morality in this sense is an act of kindness and compassion that grows organically from the inside out as a result of your regular yoga and meditation practice. This ethical conduct is not self righteous, morally superior, arrogant or intolerant in any way. Sila paramita allows you to be flexible, open, forgiving and generous.

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