avidya by Hania El-Tamer

Hania El- Tamer

My biggest problem in this lifetime was fear. Fear of death, fear of loss. I was very attached to my parents, and later to my family. I probably messed up my kids being over protective. My negative mind always winning!

I was so afraid of dying that I had insomnia very early in my life. I remember  I was in my twenties and I would spend nights without sleep, holding tight to my husband counting the years I still have to live.

Then it became worse because with children I was terrified to die and leave them alone in their young age…

And one day Yoga found me, and my life changed. I am still not 100% healed but I am working on it, working on removing the ignorance, of knowing who I really am.

Patanjali Yoga Sutra from book 2 on Sadhana verse 3 sums it all :

“AVIDYA ASMITA RAGA DVESHA ABHINIVESHA KLESHAH”

After yoga found me, the fear of dying or clinging to this body showed up in my yoga practice as a strong rejection of inversions and certain balancing postures. I was younger with no physical injuries and yet I was stopping myself from exploring these asanas because I was afraid of falling, of dying… 

So now being a teacher I really understand my students’ fear and try to work with them because without inversions and balancing we are missing a lot of  rasa.

SEQUENCE:

Easy pose long deep breathing

Meditation 5mins 

Setting of intention

Cat/Cow

DWD

Plank to DWD 2x

Lift right leg back bend knee lift higher also lifting left heel higher , straighten leg bring knee to nose, extend back knee to right elbow extend, knee to left elbow extend back , knee to nose hold , DWD, 

change side

DWD

UTTANASANA

SUN A 2X

SUN B 1X

UTKATASANA

UTKATASANA Bring prayer to chest balance on one foot change sides

Eagle pose

Padangustasana

Padahastasana

Utkattasana

Tadasana

W1 5 breath, W3 5 breath, PARSVOTTANASANA 5 breath

Prasaritapadottanasana  sirsana 2 or head on floor or block

Change side

Dwd

Lunge hands on floor lift and switch legs

Short dog hop heels to seat

Uttanasana

Malasana

Crow pose

Wall section ;

Standing split on the wall 

90degrees hand stand, handstand uttanasana in between 

virasana use block in between hands open across collar bones

forearm stand 

headstand

child pose

DWD Grab outside edges of mat 

virasana and recline

dwd

salabasana

superman with blocks

danurasana

hold knee caps with arms straight

happy baby

reclinig twist

lie on your back

halasana

shoulderstand

halasana

karnapidasana

savasana