Keeping Cool with Yoga
Top Three Ways to Cool Down with Yoga and Meditation You might not think of yoga when you consider ways to cool down. As a matter of fact, with the proliferation of hot yoga, you may only think of yoga as an activity that is meant to generate heat. But, yoga and meditation offer a variety of ways to help balance your experience of heat. First, we should explore the concept of “heat” in the context of yoga. There are many different ways to look at heat and fire in energetic principles, asana/movement, and pranayama/breath. One approach to heat is to examine the “agni” or digestive fires located in the navel center. The heat produced during the effort of practicing yoga poses (asana) is designed to clear “energetic” impurities. An example of an “energetic” impurity might be an emotional block or a mental pattern that is no longer helpful. This allows energy to move more freely through the subtle body and creates potential where there may have not been any before the block was removed. …