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I think if you buy the book. 'Hatha Yoga Pradipika' By Swami Muktibhodananda, and read the first three chapters you will know allot about the basics of yoga. It costs about £15.

If you don't buy that book you may need to ask yourself a few questions as to what you are doing. It is a very good and clear book on the subject of yoga, with no hyperbole, just the facts as they say.

The ego is the biggest block to the expansion of human intelligence and consciousness. Why? Because it's whole existence is founded on things staying the way they are, and if you are changing things then things aren't going to stay the same. The ego also likes to be comfortable and the practise of Yoga is anything but!

'WE' become comfortable and in a 'groove', we idle in the 'groove', life is ok and that's good enough. So what happens is we get more and more comfortable until we don't want to feel anything at all. Discomfort is the 'touchstone' to experience and transformation. But there is a big difference in traumatising yourself with too much discomfort and working steadily with attention and detail to the particular Asana you are 'doing' and the way the breath is behaving while you are 'doing' it!

When Ida and Pingala are open and flowing there is balance and harmony. This is the priority, get out your neti pot now!

Hare Hare Mahadeva.

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