Day #4 - Prashant's Words Hit Home

I was a bit excited about attending Prashant’s class today.

I realised I would enjoy it much more if I didn’t go with expectations.

Like anything in life, we are disappointed when we have an expectation that is not met.

Attending Prashant’s class expecting to be taught the actions of an asana was where I was going wrong, and why felt so frustrated shall we say:)

So today I went with keen ears to hear his words.

Luckily he repeats himself throughout the class with different words and analogies so that the layperson like myself can manage to glean one or two sprigs of wisdom by the end.

With respect to his poetic words which I can’t recall I will share with you the few sentences, I picked up that resonated for me.

He spoke about practitioners being stuck on the condition. I had to look up the word condition to check my understanding of his use of the word in this context.

Condition - the state of something with regard to its appearance, quality, or working order.

So I understood that he means we are stuck on achieving the appearance of the classical asana and we are missing the process.

He suggests that if we can be in the process of practicing an asana then we will see there are many processes of practicing an asana and also many conditions of an asana.

Which makes practice infinite.

So if you are ever thinking I don’t know what to practice or I am bored with the asana I practice. Shift your focus from doing the asana to discovering the many different ways or processes for the asana and you will never get bored.

His classes really give the opportunity for you to explore the process, because he does not fill the room with instructions to get to the final pose, rather he gives you the opportunity to look within and observe the process you are in at the moment in any given pose.

I think he summed it up nicely by saying something along the lines of.

We need to be in exploration of the asana, not an exhibition of the asana. 

Gold, right?