BANDHA BLOG from Beth

I can't stress enough the importance of approaching this practice of shaping the breath with a sense of exploration, curiosity and playfulness.

Movement very literally begins in the mind as an image guiding movement. (Thanks Rachel for your question about visualization). Effort to change movement inevitably leads to a distortion of the intended pattern. I look at the more advanced and subtle aspects of this internal practice of Banhdas not as something to gage my own performance against but as a context in which to explore the internal experience in my practice. In other words, forget about the idea of "getting it" or "not getting it".

Along this vein, I love these words from David Swenson:

"There is no end to the refinement of practice. Yoga has no limit or finality. Rather, the greater the depth of knowledge obtained, the greater the understanding that there is infinitely more to know."

Share your visualizations!
Beth