Your Seven Minute Wonder
Mark Whitwell
The Yoga iPromise app introduction.
Hello everybody, welcome to the iPromise app. I call it “Your Seven Minute Wonder”, your own at home Yoga practice.
In this short film I’m showing you something that you can do everyday of your life, maybe even twice a day, that’s going to make you feel really, really good. And I promise you that this is tried and true, tried and tested over thousands of years now actually, and is in our contemporary life. It is something that is going to help you be well, stay well, and feel intimate with your life, and every aspect of life. Including even the source nuturing force that brought us here in the first place and beats our heart and moves our breath and sex.
This is very powerful practise, and it’s easy easy for you to do. It’s just a matter of moving and breathing with the whole body, using the anatomy of the whole body to enhance the breath, in the polarities or the opposites of left and right, above and below, front and back, inhale and exhale, that I call “Strength Receiving” within and without. Strength that is receiving, the exhale is the strength, the inhale is the receptivity, that we could of course think of it in terms of male and female within and without. I’m not talking about same sex or opposite sex relationships, because we are all the same sex, male female, we came from our mother and father’s and here we are this force of life, that was bought into life through the union of opposites.
So what we are doing here is participating in the union of opposites. This is how spirit takes force, how energy moves in our life. How the source reality arrives as form, as this extreme intelligence. The nurturing force of life as arrived as the extreme intelligence which is this life that we have, this beautiful life, this wonder-fullness that is our life, and we’re allowed to completely enjoy it, we’re allowed to be completely well, completely happy, completely free, completely intimate with our own life and everything on this beautiful Earth.
In this breathing practice with the whole body, the breath we use is the same sort of breath that the body naturally uses when it falls asleep. So you already know this breath, it’s controlled at the laryx, not the nostrils. It’s not a sniffing, like at the nostrils like that, it’s deeper, it goes straight into the upper chest. It’s a sounds like this…. So perhaps you’d practise that, just gently, the inhale is the opposite of effort, see it’s a receiving. So without trying very hard at all, no effort at all, just tuck the chin in because that helps at first to make this little soft sound on the inhale as well as the exhale. So that infact the inhale sounds the same as the exhale. So your ability to receive is there in your life. The ability to be strong and to get rid of what you don’t need is in the exhale, but the ability to receive what you do need is in the inhale. It’s very easy. But just practise gently for a while to get that sound of the inhale and then proceed with the practise. Let the breath be the central feature of the practise. As much as possible, try not to struggle with the body, with the muscles, and with the joints. Just relax all the joints and move and breath with the feet always taking equal weight of the whole body, sort of 50–50 weight distribution on each foot, and keep the whole body from struggling. If you breath smoothly, inhale exhale, this will take away all the struggle from the body as if it’s some sort of conventional exercising system. There is no struggle. There is work, but there is no struggle.
Thankyou so much for listening, and enjoy the practise.
Mark Whitwell
From the app “ipromise” available on iTunes
You can do your own Yoga with Mark everyday. This learning yogic breathing transcends any school of yoga that you may practice. It really is fundamental to all forms of Yoga
Mark Whitwell
Heart of Yoga
