When you fall asleep or advantages of Sirsasana (headstand)

   Now, when the days are shorter and shorter we fill the tiredness more then before. How to wake up in the morning  when the sun is still far? Headstand. This is a good way to make move the energy, oxygen will fill the brain and our mind becomes more clever. We can stay as long as we can (until it's comfortable for us!). Of course, don't do it immediately after leaving your bed, do 3-4 rounds of surya namaskar (sun salutation) before, it will facilitates to do asanas after, and reduce the probability of harm.

   Recommended also for students during the exams (don't do it  when you are already in the university in front of the teacher's room :) ) but during the studying, do the break for a walk with pranayamas, some asanas.
    I was doing it during my exams, sometimes I thought that I am loosing the time, that it can be better to continue read and learn hall day, and the walk will only disturb me, but it wasn't. Just 15 minutes of walk and 15 minutes of asanas, especially headstand, improves the condition of the brain.
   My first exam is already the 3th of January, so I will begin to keep longer my asana ;) And if you are interesting about advantages and anatomical explaining of headstand you can read more in the "Anatomy of hatha yoga" of H.David Coulter.
  I would like to finish today's post with the Swamiji's words that I read today “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”  These words need not to be commented

Mouna Sadhana

Mouna- is the spiritual practice of inner silence. Not so much to do, just stop  talking, even to yourself, for an hour or more if you want conserve more energy.

Swamiji says that during speaking as during any other activity we lost our energy. "The organ of speech brings great distraction of mind. Control of speech really means control of mind" So it can be a good practice when you are feeling realy tired and you need "reload" your nervous system. Even in psychology we are talking about advatages of "no speaking". When we are suffering from professional burn-out, russian psychologists recommend to practice as they call it"white days". Dont talk for one day, or more, or just try to talk less as usually. It helps to calm your mind and learn us to control the emotions.

By my own experience I can tell that after "lot of speach day" :) even after one hour of mouna I was felling more calm in my mind, and I realise that my mind likes it. Of course, other part of me tell me "to much silence, its so boring, turn on the music, sing something", but if you always remember that your mind is powerful you will never give up.

So, let begin only by one hour for today!

Yogi's smile

   Om to everybody who read me. My name is Yulia, since 2009 I am practicing yoga in Sivananda's tradition, since september 2011 I am a yoga teacher. In my blog I would like to share with you my own experience in karma bhakti raja and jnana yoga.
   As a practitioner and a psycholog I know that its not easy sometimes to practice alone, maybe we have no time or possibility to go the yoga school, so here I will describe different methods for body and mind that Swami Sivananda teached during his life.
   This blog is also to show you other interesting things that concern the yoga. Music, people, cuisine, sanscrit, mantras etc are filling our daily life. Yogi's way can be easy and difficult in the same time. The day when we decide to be a yogi we tackle ourselves and it is the biggest fight in our life, but then we realize the beauty of  the simply things, the peace of mind and the love to human beings.
For the beginning just one advice : Smile and think in positive way! Everything starts in our mind. So, are you smiling now? :)