so lately during classes I have tried to use the metaphor of our bodies being the vehicle for our mind, a common expresson within yoga.
but I try to get them to understand for example in the surya namaskar [sunsalutations] that as any driver of his car if going in a okey speed doing different movements you need to be calm and focused as a driver to make it thru safely.

equally in surya namaskar you need to strive to be calm in your mind even if your physical body starts to feel slightly more tired or so.
to be able to be calm with awarness within our challenges as for example our asanas, and to be able to help the body instead of competing against it, then you need to learn how to breath more correctly.

with a stressed mind & a fast irregular breath you will mainly end up with a more forceful & perhaps straining effect to your physical body where you tense up even more since the muscles are going in to protection mood and contracting.
you will use mostly your big explosive outer muscles and quickly you get lacto acids aswell since these muscles have less endurance.

most people dont have a to good connection with inner smaller stabilizing mucles, so when you wnat to much you send all signals to the outer parts and then mostly just block yourself from getting deeper into a asana, and instead competing with your bodies unbalances and your limits.
instead if you went only as far into the position where you start to feel challenges, and stay there and start to breath deeply and slowly get your inner awarness and calmness then you will be able to start opening your body, you can feel where the tensions are and try to release them at the same time you are still in the same position.
you tell your body to relax instead of "cramping" as it does instincivly when you pull or push forcefully.

with experience later on you realize how much you can affect your body and regulate it just with our mind and inner awarness.
and suddenly with less effort you will be able to come deeper inta a position and stay for longer time, wich means more time to open up the stretches, more time for all inner effects wich is also a very importent part of your yoga asana practice.

asana is the general name for the positions in yoga,
but translation from sanskrit asana means "steady comfortable position"

once on a small talk at an satsang in a ashram i visited some great yogi said something like this:
asanas should be done with good technique, inner awarness & with a humble attitude.

so please, remember we do yoga to feel & become better,
we dont do yoga to wear out our bodies..
it is quit scary to hear more and more how so called yogis need to go therapy to rebuild their bodies after overstraning in their far to much competetive yoga practice.

remember to breath, that is your link into inner awarness

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