Weekly Yoga Journal

    I want to start off by talking about my expectations for this class, before I started. I was expecting to do in person classes, however the pandemic stopped that real quick. Unfortunately, I had to attend online classes, which in my experience, limited the classes capacity to actually teach its students. I expected to practice more physical yoga, than learning about the history of yoga. It is a college course, so I really did not mind all of the writing, since it is a very diverse topic to teach.     This course provided me with a reliable journal to reflect back to, whenever I need. I also was able to see my growth throughout the semester, which was pretty interesting. I started my weekly journals with a observation post on yoga and provided my background and experience with yoga. The class was taught in a way, that corresponds to what I needed to write about in my weekly journals. It's also interesting to note, that the content of each weekly journal, should be used to corr

     In mostly every yoga practice I took, the teacher pushed the idea of spiritual awareness, in some wort of way. Some teachers sang and some chanted, which is seen as a ritual practice. Ritual practice is commonly seen throughout religion, since it adds to the spirituality aspect that attracts people to practice. The most common ritual practice performed throughout mostly every yoga practice is, meditation. Meditation can be used to increase mind to muscle connection or "kinesthesia".      I watched a YouTube video called "Grounding into Gratitude", which focused on root chakra yoga. The practice included focusing on '"chakra" points, specifically, the root chakra, which is the pelvis. This type of yoga involved meditation and stretches designed to relieve pressure from the pelvis area. The idea of focusing your energy on these chakra points, is right up the alley of spirituality. I mean, this is what spirituality is all about.      The video expr

     In most spiritual practices, the body is seen as a vessel that gives the soul a place to manifest itself into an individual. Some argue that this individual, is an already "connected" being with the higher power that gave their vessel life, some think that, the vessels need to learn how to become connected. Yoga introduces powerful movements, that allow people to connect more with their bodies, ultimately, improving their connection with the higher power. These movements provide the vessel with the ultimate divine experience, that makes one feel as if, they are the universe.      Most practices treat the mind, body and soul, as three different components. Meditation is used to connect mind with soul. MPY is used to connect mind to body. When the mind is connected to the body and soul, the practitioner will experience total bliss and divinity. This experience is determined, solely on the practitioners will power to follow through with the practice. The person must also ha