I have experienced post - savassana bliss many times. after guided relaxation I felt like I’m on drugs for about 30 minutes, but sometimes this sensations stayed for days.
I do guided savassana too. My student report the same effect: “ecstatic, like on drugs, completely empty head, happy”.
Anyone feel anything like this after the guided savasana?
What do you think is the nature of that bliss?
Does it have any possible negative mental/emotional consequences?
Are you talking about a feeling where you cannot find your car after class or are you talking about a calm, centeredness that allows for clarity of thought, purpose, and living of dharma?
[QUOTE=InnerAthlete;32554]Are you talking about a feeling where you cannot find your car after class or are you talking about a calm, centeredness that allows for clarity of thought, purpose, and living of dharma?[/QUOTE]
LOL:)) Everyone seem to get to their vehicles just fine:)
I thought that I have explained everything in the original post, but let me try again. I do not think it can be fully explained by words thought.
I’m talking about sort of ecstatic bliss, kind of the feeling of unlimited happiness and universal safety, and calmness of the mind at the same time.
Never experienced such state after Savasana.
How long do you do this posture? (and your student?)
Exactly, what part of the head is touching the floor? Because there are few views on this point.
I`m really interested in this.
[QUOTE=Sasha;32609]Never experienced such state after Savasana.
How long do you do this posture? (and your student?)
Exactly, what part of the head is touching the floor? Because there are few views on this point.
I`m really interested in this.[/QUOTE]
Just a regular guided shavasana - rlax your left hand, ralax you right had…etc. It takes about 10-20 minutes.
First time I was introduced to the technique at the age of 12 in the psychotherapeutic office (in Crimea). And when my teacher did the same thing in the yoga class (10 years later) I was very surprised.
Sometimes I felt like my head and my body expands beyond all understandable means. Sometimes I saw pictures of wild animals attacking. One time I fall asleep:)
But every time I felt ecstatic bliss after guided savasana. I would not think that it is dangerous since I’m doing it for almost 20 tears and I just fine:)
What bothering me that where this bliss is coming from, moreover my student ask me as well:)
PS : If you are interested, there are great book about deep relaxation and other tricks by Vladimir Levi “Исскуство быть собой”
I love savassana, but don’t always achieve the state you’re talking about. I have attention deficit disorder, and find that when I practice savassana at home, every little sound pulls me away from total relaxation, and I really need to focus to let go (as odd as that sounds). In the classroom, with gentle music to drown out little sounds, and an instructor reminding me to let my thoughts pass, I achieve to pose almost every time.
I feel more aware, generally happier, and like I can breathe better. Savassana is actually the reason I returned to yoga after my first class!! 
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I feel more aware, generally happier, and like I can breathe better. Savassana is actually the reason I returned to yoga after my first class!! :)[/QUOTE]
By the way Savasana is the most difficult yoga asana:)
[QUOTE=equiyogini;32624]I love savassana, but don’t always achieve the state you’re talking about. I have attention deficit disorder, and find that when I practice savassana at home, every little sound pulls me away from total relaxation, and I really need to focus to let go (as odd as that sounds). In the classroom, with gentle music to drown out little sounds, and an instructor reminding me to let my thoughts pass, I achieve to pose almost every time.
I feel more aware, generally happier, and like I can breathe better. Savassana is actually the reason I returned to yoga after my first class!! :)[/QUOTE]
you could play a cd to wander off into
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What bothering me that where this bliss is coming from, moreover my student ask me as well:)[/QUOTE]
you could spend your whole life trying to answer that question, but why?
"peace be with you"
Brother Neil
[QUOTE=Brother Neil;32712]you could spend your whole life trying to answer that question, but why?
"peace be with you"
Brother Neil[/QUOTE]
We are intelligent spices. And if there are someting going on that we can explain I would like to be aware of it. Especially if it is relates to my health and to my student’s well being.
I’m asking because I have some thoughts, just wan to see that others think. I suspect, that deep relaxation make our brain to produce endorphine ( the hormone of happiness) … similar to when we “fake” (induce) deep breath - we calm down…
The Bliss comes from your anandamayakosha.
Its nice but not the end.
Good Shavasana will eventually lead to introversion of mind and senses back through the various bodies. The deeper you go back the more stupidly (i mean that in a good way!!!) blissful you feel.
If your not really relaxing good and receding back then it must be some brain juice or secretion of some kind. But if it’s really good shavasana it will be because of the introversion back through the bodies.
[QUOTE=CityMonk;32713]We are intelligent spices. And if there are someting going on that we can explain I would like to be aware of it. Especially if it is relates to my health and to my student’s well being. [/QUOTE]
Fair enough. Im not a scientist so I cant answer in scientific terms. I have had some experiences of this bliss and for me it seems to happen when I let go and am relaxed. Many traditions/religions talk about surrender and I believe that surrender may play a part in experiencing this bliss, can surender be scientfically explained,? Two people can be doing the same practice, one lets go into it, the other does not. Besides letting go, scitnetfically they are doing the same thing and have different results. One can be more relaxed while the other more aggitated. It also seems to happen when I have no expectations, no anticipation, etc… being present.
[QUOTE=Brother Neil;32801] Many traditions/religions talk about surrender and I believe that surrender may play a part in experiencing this bliss, can surender be scientfically explained,? Two people can be doing the same practice, one lets go into it, the other does not. [/QUOTE]
You are right, not everything can be explained.
But the experience you mentioned I would explain as following:
One person is able to “control” relaxation of muscles and another can not do it.
I always telling my students:
What is the most difficult yoga pose? They say eagle, peacock, lotus…etc. And the one said shavasana!
Indeed for 90% people relaxation comes very difficult. (I’m talking about real relaxation, with effect on the vessels and blood pressure). We can contract our muscles using the will power, but to relax muscles using the same will power became so difficult for most humans.
[QUOTE=CityMonk;33398]You are right, not everything can be explained.
But the experience you mentioned I would explain as following:
One person is able to “control” relaxation of muscles and another can not do it.
I always telling my students:
What is the most difficult yoga pose? They say eagle, peacock, lotus…etc. And the one said shavasana!
Indeed for 90% people relaxation comes very difficult. (I’m talking about real relaxation, with effect on the vessels and blood pressure). We can contract our muscles using the will power, but to relax muscles using the same will power became so difficult for most humans.[/QUOTE]
Why would you want to tell people this, they may think they are the ones that cant do it. it really does not matter to most people what most people can or cant do, it only matters to the one who hears at this moment
[QUOTE=Brother Neil;33410]Why would you want to tell people this, they may think they are the ones that cant do it. it really does not matter to most people what most people can or cant do, it only matters to the one who hears at this moment[/QUOTE]
Sorry for misunderstanding, I should make it more clear.
I do not say that they can not do it. I said that The point is that to relax the muscle and to contract it just the same act. But to contract the muscle is more easier for most of us.
Everything, including relaxation technique requires practice.
[QUOTE=CityMonk;33543]Sorry for misunderstanding, I should make . more clear.
I do not say that they can not do it. I said that The point is that to relax the muscle and to contract it just the same act. But to contract the muscle is more easier for most of us.
Everything, including relaxation technique requires practice.[/QUOTE]
I never claimed that you said that they cannot do it. My issue is to the statistics that i believe are irrelevant to the students. I believe what I said in the previous post would apply to the above post as well. As a teacher Why say something is hard or easy. If they can do it, its ok. If they cannot do it, its ok. Yes, relaxing may get easier for some with practice, but it does not require pracice. Relaxation does not require practice, it only requires relaxing. I hope you hear what I am trying to say. Now if you want to discuss with teachers why some of your students are relaxing and some not, that is totally different.
brother Neil
i personal trainer I know, told me that when you stretch, the lactic acid naturally sitting in your muscles is released, and goes to your brain, and gives you a runners high. Sounds logical to me I guess.
[QUOTE=YogiAdam;33630]i personal trainer I know, told me that when you stretch, the lactic acid naturally sitting in your muscles is released, and goes to your brain, and gives you a runners high. Sounds logical to me I guess.[/QUOTE]
Lactic Acid makes you high?
:eek:
and this sounds logical?
“Sounds logical” is your science?
The hardest & the most important asana.
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“Sounds logical” is your science?[/QUOTE]
Of course ‘sound logical’ isn’t science. What the f#@k are you talking about??