New Age Music: Not What I Thought It Was

Recently, I got back into doing yoga. Once upon a time, yoga was a daily part of my life. Every day, I would get up, go to my teacher's house, and do the primary series of Ashtanga yoga. When my teacher left to go back to India, I continued the practice on my own. I taught the series to a friend of mine, and we did it together at least twice a week. Unfortunately, I haven't kept up with it as much as I like. Today, I pretty much just attempted a lot of poses that used to be second nature to me. Setting my ego aside, I know that this is a good lesson for me. Consistency is important, and if I can fall so quickly out of shape at this young age, how much more important will it be once I'm older?

Getting back to this morning, I went all the way through the primary series, but only after I amended my routine. I found that my mind would wander and I would often focus on how out of shape I was, or how different my body was now than it was a year ago, and got really discouraged at my lack of flexibility (which, I know for most people would still seem pretty freakishly flexible). I finally decided that I was either going to find a way to keep focused, or I was going to walk away from the mat for the day. I really wanted to make it through my practice, so I went, grabbed some yoga music, and got back on the mat. As long as I kept breathing in sync with the music, I found that I had both the energy and the focus that I needed to make it through the rest of the poses.

I got the idea from a yoga class I went to a few months back- I didn't care for the class, but I really enjoyed the music that was playing there, which I had asked the teacher about after class. It turns out, the teacher was using meditation music in her classes to help everyone keep their focus. She shared that it also really helped in a feeling of unity within the class to have everyone listening to the same music. I think I probably would have fallen in love with that teacher's classes had she been teaching in a style of yoga that appeals to me. I am a very big fan of musically guided meditation. I can sit for hours in absolute stillness and let harmonies guide me along a journey to destinations both known and unknown.

It doesn't surprise me at all that music worked so well for my yoga practice. I really enjoy new age music, and find that I can enhance a great many activities with it. I think that much of it functions to help calm people and to help us connect with both ourselves and the world around us. In my experience, stillness is found through movement- the stillness of the mind while the body moves through a series of yoga poses or walks through a labyrinth. The secret lies in the contrast, at least for me. I am sure that everyone has their own individual experience of movement and stillness and the relationship between the two.

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