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| Zen Corner |
"Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace."
~Bhagavad Gita |
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| Greetings! | 
The forecast is always sunny at PBY. See you in the hot room! |
| Student of the Month - Michelle |
 I have been practicing at Pearland Bikram Yoga since it opened. I had practiced yoga in college ten years ago, but I had no experience with Bikram yoga. It had been a decade since I had a consistent workout routine. Because I am a working wife and mother of two girls under the ages of four, the early morning classes fit best with my schedule. It amazes me that I manage to get myself out of bed that early to workout, but PBY is my favorite place to start the day.
Over the past year, my practice has grown leaps and bounds. Even so, I find the postures continue to challenge me in new ways. Camel pose was once impossible but is now my favorite pose for relaxing my back. Triangle once seemed easy but has recently taken on a new shape for me. I have even learned to love the steaming, hot room. The heat and the postures have become my treatment of choice for stress headaches, back pain, aching feet, neck tension and stress in general. PBY is one of the only places that I can leave my worries at the door and focus on me.
Since February I have lost 60 pounds through regular practice and a strict diet. Yoga has not only, toned and strengthened my body, but it has also helped me manage the stress of maintaining a rigorously healthy diet. I used to deal with stress by eating. On my new dietary regimen, that is not an option so I have had to find new ways to manage stress and mood swings. Yoga has given me a new outlet and has helped keep my body and mind balanced.
Everyone at PBY has been so supportive in and out of the yoga room. The encouragement of the teachers has helped me to push through difficult postures and has kept me coming back to the next class. PBY has truly created a peaceful and positive retreat from my everyday life. |
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| Meditation - A Closer Look |
 A Right Meditation Posture plays a very important role during meditation. The activity of the mind and the body posture are directly related to each other. It is almost impossible to be alert and fully present when your body is not in a proper position. When we choose a Meditation Posture we should always bear in mind that
- The Meditation Posture should always enable us to relax and it should be comfortable.
- The Meditation Posture should enable us to stay alert and awake.
Many people stop meditating because they have learned to meditate in a posture that is only based on alertness and mental presence. The fact is that for most Western people it is hard to sit in the well-known tailor`s posture or the lotus posture without some form of support for a long time. Aches and discomfort soon demand more attention than meditation and make it more and more difficult to remain concentrated. Some people start to doubt whether meditation can be useful for them, they start to think it may be too hard for them and they doubt whether they are the right kind of people to benefit from meditation.
But this is not true and without forgetting that we should stay awake and alert we can also start meditating in a more comfortable position. Only when we get more experienced with meditation and we get used to sitting still for long periods of time has the moment arrived to get on to the more traditional Meditation Postures.
Traditional postures like the tailor`s posture; the lotus posture or the Burmese posture will ultimately enable us to experience our Meditations with even more alertness and consciousness.
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| Posture of the Month: Half Moon (part one) |  This month we will cover the first part of Half Moon Pose as this pose is very intricate and very important. Next newsletter we will go into the other two parts of Half Moon, backward bending and Padahastasana (hands to feet). Here is a humorous yet accurate excerpt I found on this posture from an instructor in NYC:
I will be talking about the Half Moon Pose... I think that this first posture is the most difficult in the entire class. You have just rushed in to the studio from possibly a hard days work and your are feeling stressed out and may be wondering, "Why am I rushing into a crowded, hot room to work so hard after I have worked so hard all day?" The breathing exercise is over and now you have to start moving your body. You are not quite warmed up even though the room is hot and you have started to sweat. You bend to the right and are holding the posture for what seems to be an eternity and in your mind you think to yourself, "What am I doing here?" Well, you are not alone! I think like that every time I take a class. What I do tell myself is that if I can get through these first postures the rest of the class will feel great! This posture is designed to focus your mind and bring your awareness to yourself for the next 90 minutes. What a treat to allow yourself this time to make your life a little better one day at a time.
What is really important:
- Keep your palms together as if they were one body part - no light or air escaping through the two palms at all.
- Do not collapse into the posture. Broken down, this means to keep the ribs that are closest to the ceiling always stretching up towards the ceiling - you do not want to "crunch" your lower spine down just so that you can go down deeper. All of your vertebrae should be stretched out as much as possible, although some make be arching to right or left there should be ample space between vertebrae, which is only achieved by reaching upwards with your spine.
- Don't look at the floor - look at yourself in the front mirror - keeping your chin away from your chest. You should have enough room for a tennis ball to fit under your chin.
- Think of this, both sides of each of these body parts should be able to touch an imaginary board in front of you with the same imprint: pinkie-side of your tightly clasped hands, both straightened elbows, both eye sockets, both sides of your pectoral/chest muscles, both hip joints, both thighs, both knees, both big toes. Now obviously you will not be able to reach your eye sockets to an imaginary board in front of you, but the intention is that your face is totally and equally forward facing.
If all of those body parts are not touching an imaginary board equally you are not in correct posture. Often if you will not go as deeply (bend over as much) in the posture - you can have a more correct posture, which is far more important. Also understand that the posture is called Half Moon because your body should look like a half moon with the arch at your hips. So push your hips as far away from you and as far away from standing straight and upright as you can, while still doing each of the rest of the requirements of the posture. Unless you are trying your best to do this posture correctly, you will not receive the amazing benefits listed below. Worse yet, you could really injure yourself.
Bikram himself lists these Benefits:
- Strengthens every muscle in the body's core, especially in the abdomen, and flexes and strengthens the latissimus dorsi, oblique, deltoid and trapezious muscles.
- Increases the flexibility of the spine comprehensively, from coccyx (tail bone) to neck; promotes proper kidney function; and helps to cure enlargement of the liver and spleen.
- Firms and trims the waistline, hips, abdomen, buttocks and thighs.
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| Note from Taz |
Being an honest and loyal student of Bikram Yoga is what has given me the discipline, courage and fortitude to have created and to now maintain the business, Pearland Bikram Yoga.
If you find that the Yoga is challenging you, please know that it is, and that is It's highest good.
Many Blessings,
Taz |
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