I have been chanting the Invocation to Patanjali at the beginning of class. It's a long mantra and if you enjoy chanting, I'd like to help you learn it.
I sometimes find it difficult to convince students to maintain proper alignment as they are coming into a pose. They would rather misalign to get the satisfaction of "achieving" the pose pose than to patiently wait for their body to be strong enough and flexible enough to get into the pose safely.
In a walking meditation you are not walking to get anywhere. You are also not just letting the mind wander, although it might just the way it does in seated meditation. You are walking to still the mind.
If you have ever meditated, you may have noticed that during meditation your mind slips off of the object of meditation and you have to bring your awareness back.
With “neuroplastic pain” however, the brain is generating pain signals without any apparent physical damage. Gordon has identified this kind of pain as the most likely issue at the root of most cases of chronic pain.
