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The attention to spine ensures that you grab hara at the level of the center of your heart. The technique ensures that you get in the middle. If you can no longer pay attention to the spine, then you are in the state of “being” The state of being needs the counterpart hara in the lower abdomen to press yourself well into your body in this state.

Turn the attention from the outside inwards and find yourself within. Once you have found the place and you are connected again, you will ground yourself better and immediately you get into your hara better. Practice the technique. The moment you can no longer connect with yourself, you have maximum hara in that area and you are you are reconnected. Finding yourself ensures that you can easily “be” in all kinds of situations.

In class, we often talk about hara. But where exactly is the hara, and what is the benefit of being well-rooted in it?

Location
Broadly speaking, the hara refers to the pelvic area, just beneath your bellybutton, but more specifically to the sacrum or tailbone. Being well-rooted in your hara means being grounded in your pelvis, and in particular, in the area around the tailbone (Hara 1). When you are well-connected to the hara at the tailbone, you can extend this connection further down to a point between your heels (Hara 2). The way your breath begins is an indicator of how well you are grounded in your hara.

Purpose
When you are well-rooted in your hara, you are well-rooted in your body. The hara serves as the anchor of your center, and as such, it strongly influences the openness of the heart. The combination of hara and heart allows the body to be purified, which in turn leads to relaxation. You can compare it to tightening the sails on a sailboat. The hara creates tension on the line between hara and heart, which supports the purification process. The more grounded you are in your hara, the better your body can function. When you are well-rooted in your hara, you come into your center. In the center of your heart, you are close to yourself, you can truly listen to yourself, and life begins to flow naturally.

This week we practiced creating and maintaining unity: – with enough hara you get in the middle – In this state you can find yourself and reduce the distance to grab even more hara – you achieve unity and notice that you are not sitting well in your body – by then keeping your distance from yourself, you don’t break the unity and you take even more hara – You apply this in all kinds of different positions until you can no longer keep your distance and the unity is solid.

These weeks we have been working on strengthening hara with: – attention, by grabbing hara at the front and pressing it down to the lower abdomen and eventually tail bone. – breathing, down and finally to tailbone. – attention, by bringing tail bone towards you. – breathing, upwards from tailbone. – to center the area at the sternum At maximum hara, the breathing of hara will be promoted to the cranking of purification.

Techniques we have practised these weeks: – Breathing to spine, sternum to you – Ren Mai / Du mai breathing, pressing hara down

In the last weeks of 2024, the focus during the yoga class were on points of attention. Points of attention ensure you that you’ll bounce back after a setback. The line between Hara and Heart is restored and the body relaxes.

The points of attention: feet, tail bone, sternum, middle head, breath, heart, spine.