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Healing through Yoga

When we talk of healing, we can look at it from many levels.  Healing on one level could refer to the bodies natural repair and renewal mechanism.  Finding an environment in which the body can maintain all its functions well.  In deep relaxation for example, we can experience a profound healing where our conscious attention meets a depth within us.  When we gain a ‘witnessing perspective’ to our mind we see from a different angle, where we are not so ‘close’ to the drama playing itself out in the mind.  Sometimes and with grace, we enter deeper experiences, where the illusion of ourselves as an individual separate from the whole is seen for what it is.  Its through accessing and being awake to the deeper levels within us, does the more profound healing occur.  Even a glimpse can put a whole new structure in the mind and change how we relate to the world.  Hand in hand with deeper glimpses comes an un-doing of general and normal fears and insecurities that comes from a purely ego based existence.  Not that that is wrong, but all the false conclusions that the ego makes, all that it feels responsible for, all that it thinks needs to happen right down to how the world actually works starts to also be seen for the illusion that it is.

 

Rowan Cobelli

Rowan Cobelli has been a full-time tutor and teacher trainer of Yoga for 24 years. His studies have taken him from the psychological to the spiritual, exploring the art of inner resolution and true rest. He grew up with a Roman Catholic family and schooling, lived for several years at a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation College, then experienced Ashram living whilst studying Yoga & Yogic philosophy. He is interested in the complexity of human interaction, and subtle and determinant forces that inform behaviour, opinion, choices, and purpose. Rowan became fascinated by the non-dual path of inner communion, silence without effort, and direct recognition of the nature of Being. He is now particularly interested in the fine line between the direct experience of Self recognition, and the study of the very human journey of understanding and psychological integration. These explorations have taken him into the realms of trauma, shadow and repression, spiritual bypassing, and the brilliance and precariousness of the human defence mechanisms, and their roles in a more honest and emotionally developed life.