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The Yoga Girl
"...if we perform even the smallest task with imagination, our lives feel richer and more varied..."
Scouting for the best overall yoga book, I came across 'Yoga For Real Life' by Maya Fiennes. The advice and options she gives are varied for many lifestyles which attracted my attention. What I later got to learn is that she is a musician! Of course, I would pick out the one yoga book by a musician. The way she speaks is warm and is something I feel I connect with very easily.
Maya goes into the way in which sounds are beneficial; background music as well as mantras. Though the latter is not something I partake in, her advice is notable that whilst we focus on the sounds, our mind can be de-cluttered. She mentions also the benefits of the vibrations and how they stimulation various parts of ourselves. Music during, not only yoga, all activities can create a vast array of effects: motivation, relaxation, joy, sadness and more. So, expectedly, if you want to feel calmer during a session then play ambient music or for more energy play uptempo sounds. Silence is also refreshing, just the sounds of your own breathing and distant murmurs can really bring you back to stillness and yourself.
Silence is golden.
As we move onto learning more on the Sacral chakra which governs creativity, Maya talks about her own experiences in the music industry. As a child, she would lose herself in the sounds from notes on a keyboard, this lead Maya to learn and love playing the piano. She chased the dream and ended up performing for glitzy events. She grew weary from just playing the notes off a page and found freedom in creating her own pieces. Maya explains that underneath all of our "wants" we will find our real untapped passion.
We do not need to be perfect.
We do not need to be the best.
Tapping into your imagination
and exploring different
avenues will give you lots of
pleasure. We can even feel
"limitless"! Trust your instincts
and belief in yourself.
"...being able to detach
from your noisy,
information-chomping,
over-analytical mind will
encourage inspiration..."
Stuck writing lyrics or
unable to finish
track production?
Stop overthinking,
calm your thoughts
and the ideas will
flow.
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