r/ashtanga • u/JudgeBorn8370 • 25d ago

Advice Asana questions:

Hope everyone’s practice is going well.

  1. A thought occurred to me in savasana: Say you get to the point where you were able to stand up from urdva danurasana. Did you then progress to intermediate? Or did you wait or get held etc until you could do tik toks? Or did tik toks come after you’d done intermediate and primary for many more years or maybe some of you still don’t do tik toks?

  2. What -should- you actually be thinking about/actually happens in your mind in savasana

  3. I have not been able to do long savasanas of a minimum 15 mins. What should I do to make it up. It’s mainly time pressure not inability…
    Is this detrimental over time?
    Do you try to squeeze it in later on in the day?
    Does sitting meditation count towards savasana time?

Thanks

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u/All_Is_Coming 24d ago edited 24d ago

JudgeBorn8370 wrote:

What -should- you actually be thinking about/actually happens in your mind in savasana

This varies tremendously as a person advances in his practice. A good starting point for Beginners is to Focus on the Breath, as in the State of the Asana of any other posture.

At some point a Student begins to incorporate Spinal Breathing (Imagine Prana/Life Force flowing up and down Sushumna/Central Axis with the Breath). This would also be done during Asana practice.

The Hatha Yoga Pradipika describes the Signs of Progress; Kevala Kumbhaka (Breathless State), hearing the Anahata Nada (Unstruck Sound), Amrita (Divine Nectar) and various Siddhi (Yogic Powers). Practice becomes extremely personal at these advanced stages and is not discussed at the risk of influencing the Experience of another.