The Svaroopa® Sciences
The Svaroopa® Sciences take an utterly unique approach to teachings, which have been passed down through a lineage that stretches back thousands of years. While you will immediately recognize that you have never experienced anything like it, you will also be absorbed in a feeling of coming home- to your Self. That is because every practice, every technique, every teaching of Svaroopa® Yoga is for this very purpose- to bring you to your Self.
It All Begins at the Tailbone
Our tailbones are just like a dog’s tail. When something unpleasant happens, the tailbone tucks under, just like a dog’s tail, causing a domino effect through your whole body. Unlike a dog, whose tail pops out and starts wagging after the unpleasantness has passed, we tend to hold on to our reactions, keeping our tailbones tucked and the muscles throughout our bodies in perpetual tension. The Svaroopa® Sciences’ core release immediately starts unravelling those tensions, starting at the tailbone.
Support Equals Release
Compare how your body feels when you are perched on a tall barstool to how it feels in a big cozy armchair. When your body is properly supported it will relax, unwind, let go. Svaroopa® yoga poses are supported with props to target and release the tension along your spine. This spinal tension is the root of all tension in the body.
When You Lean Weight into a Bone, You Release the Muscles Around the Bone
Press an ice cube into the tabletop with your thumb. The ice at the base of the cube will melt into a pool on the table far more quickly than it melts under the warmth of your thumb.
Why? -the weight you are leaning into it.
It’s the same with the tension in your muscles. Svaroopa® yoga’s supported angles use your own weight to lean into these tensions at the deepest levels- around your bones- and melt the tensions away- just like the ice at the base of the ice cube.
A Long Muscle is a Strong Muscle
An arrow shoots much farther from a bow with a long string. A bow with a shortened string does not have the flexibility needed to launch the arrow any distance. A long muscle can contract a greater distance, giving it more flexibility and strength than a shortened muscle. Svaroopa® yoga’s techniques allow the muscle tensions to unravel of their own accord, gently restoring muscles to their natural length and strength.
A Shortened Muscle is a Tight Muscle
Bend your arm and flex your bicep. You can see how the muscle tightens up and shortens. The deeper “unseen” tensions in your body are keeping your muscles in the same condition. Imagine trying to straighten and move your arm without letting your bicep lengthen back out. That’s what is happening at the core of your body and showing up in all sorts of discomforts throughout your whole body. Svaroopa® yoga releases those tensions from the inside out, progressively freeing you from those discomforts. The results are tangible, immediate and reliable.
A Tight Muscle is a Weak Muscle
Make a tight fist. Keep making it. Keep making it. Now think of a tight fist that has been held tight for years. Blood flow is restricted. Nerves are pinched. The fist has gone numb. Now ask that fist to unclench and work, performing even the simplest of tasks. You can readily imagine that such a fist will have a hard time even unravelling itself, let alone working with dexterity.
It's the same with a tight muscle- it cannot perform as it should. The muscles around it have to pitch in to get the job done, tightening themselves up to do it. It’s all progressive. Svaroopa® yoga poses support these muscles so they can unravel and get back to working the way they are meant to.
A Weak Muscle is Prone to Injury
A shortened, tight, weak muscle is eventually going to get injured. There is no mystery here. If you have muscle pain, you have an injured muscle. Svaroopa® yoga can help repair injured muscles, no matter how deep and hard to locate. This is because the Svaroopa® Sciences go straight to the source- the tailbone- where it all begins…