When beginning with YEMTM, there are two suggested points of focus: the flow of breath and the sensations that run through your body. The aim of all forms of yoga is to experience the oneness of body, mind and spirit. The breath acts as an interface between that which you perceive as outside yourself and that which you experience within. The breath moves continuously within and without. Focusing your awareness on the breath assists you to dissolve the sense of division between what you see as outside yourself (other) and that which you feel is within (mine).
The objective of breath awareness is to eventually experience a greater sense of personal wholeness and oneness with all things. It will assist you in becoming simultaneously more globally aware and personally centered. Awareness on the inhalation draws your awareness inward, into your body/being. Awareness of the sensations within your body allows you to feel more at home in your body and anchor
the experience of your breath in a tangible way. Focus on the exhalation allows for expansion and release. There is tremendous spaciousness and ease inherent in the aerial quality of the breath. That spaciousness is brought into the body/being on the inhalation and is allowed to permeate through the body/being on the exhalation.
Breath and sensation are continuously interrelating. An embodied, yogic state is an expression of the dance between spirit and matter. The Sanskrit word Tantra, a branch of yoga, means "to weave" or "to expand". In this way, yoga is about weaving a dance between spirit (breath) and matter (body) while liberating dormant potential energies and infusing the body/being with consciousness. Focus on the interplay between breath and sensation becomes a meditation on the relationship between spirit and matter and allows for greater synergy between these two.
YEMTM method is distinguished by integrating specific key points of awareness in every class, such as:
1) Downward moving energy: Gravity anchors your body/being to the center of the Earth.
2) Upward moving energy: Inspiration connects you infinitely towards the cosmos.
3) The spine: This is your body’s central channel of universal energy.
4) Co-creation: When in a integrated state of being, a flowing pulse moves through your spine and radiates throughout your body.
It is available in every posture. It is an expression of the co-creative interplay between downward and upward moving energy.
5) Pelvic tilt: This is an expression of belly breathing. Your center of gravity is just below the navel. A tailbone tilt on the exhale releases energy downward so that subsequent upward moving energy can arise through your body and float into the crown.
6) Breath awareness: The breath is an interface between body, mind, spirit and soul. Focusing on this clears the subtle channels of the body and allows for integration of body, mind, spirit and soul.
7) Emotional awareness: Emotions bridge the physical and intellectual bodies. By practicing mindfulness, one comes more fully into the present, where healing and transformation occur.
8) Circuit breakers: The first cervical vertebrae (C1) at the very top of the neck, and the tailbone (the coccyx) at the base of the spine, when aligned allow for upward and downward moving energy.
9) Body intelligence: Inherent intelligence exists within the body to be simultaneously released and cultivated. Through breath awareness you are infusing the body/being with consciousness and awakening inner intelligence.
10) Balance: Develop a balanced state of being between relaxed pleasure-delight (Sukha) and firm, alertness (Stira).
11) Spaciousness: Allow room for the breath to permeate your body/being by doing 80% your maximum. Create spaciousness and ease rather than tension and compression.
12) Two-way-moving energy: In all poses there is at least two-way energy at all times
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