Falling Towards the Sky
Summary: I am taking my time to experiment with the sense of sky in modern postural yoga. Halfway through this experiment, I can say that several other philosophical exercises contributed to enriching my felt-worldview with a sense of open sky above me, and so they helped make the yoga exercise (which I find pretty challenging) easier. Luke Howard’s cloud study of Cirrus in parallel receding lines, ca. 1803–11 — Source (© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum and published under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence). A little while ago, over the span of a month, I experimented with modern postural yoga, in order to feel the insights it can deliver. The result of that experiment was that I felt only half of what I was trying to feel. Indeed, these insights can be split into two categories: the “sense of earth” and the “sense of sky”, and I only accessed the first. The sense of earth means feeling grounded, bound by gravity, secure. I managed to feel that one and...