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Allow 45 minutes for practice

This sequence adopts certain poses with the support of a wall or a chair. This way of practicing, for both new and experienced yogis, should inform positioning when doing the asanas without support.

  1. Vrksasana (Facing a wall)
  2. Chataranga Dandasana (facing wall)
  3. Uttanasana (at wall)
  4. Virabhadrasana 3 (at wall)
  5. Uttanasana (from a wall to a chair)
  6. Viparita Karani
    • From Viparita Karani, lower your heels down towards the skirt with your feet apart and soles of the feet on the wall so that you are squatting, lying down.
    • Let the lower back breathe and groins and hips stretch
      Stay until the breath is intimate and steadying and you feel acclimatised.
    • Roll onto your side, come up and prepare for…
  7. Savasana

Quotes

Question: ‘I’m trying very hard in my practice but don’t seem to be getting anywhere.’

Answer: ‘This is very important. Don’t try to get anywhere in the practice. The very desire to be free or to be enlightened will be the desire that prevents your freedom.
You can try as hard as you wish, practice ardently night and day, but if it is still with the desire to achieve in mind, you will never find peace. The energy from this desire will be a cause for doubt and restlessness. No matter how long or how hard you practice, wisdom will not arise from desire. So, simply let go. Watch the mind and body mindfully but don’t try to achieve anything. Don’t cling even to the practice of enlightenment.’

— The Venerable Ajahn Chah