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Examples: In Downward Facing Dog, the drishti is your navel.
Drishti (I love this word). Jeff 2006
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Examples: In Downward Facing Dog, the drishti is your navel.
Archive 2006-09-01 Jeff 2006
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Yet we cannot lose our drishti, our gazing point, because yoga, like business, will render us unstable if we are distracted.
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Each yoga pose has a specific drishti, which also aids in alignment.
Archive 2006-09-01 Jeff 2006
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Even though a drishti can be described as a fixed gaze, the eyes should always stay soft, never straining.
Archive 2006-09-01 Jeff 2006
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The instructor will tell us to set our drishti on something fixed so that we can keep our balance during a one-legged stance.
Archive 2006-09-01 Jeff 2006
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Currently Playing: Tool, "Third Eye" helluva song to go with drishti, huh?
Archive 2006-09-01 Jeff 2006
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It seems to me that the concept of drishti has applications outside of the yoga studio, such as keeping my drishti focused on a long term goal.
Archive 2006-09-01 Jeff 2006
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When I'm holding a pose in class, I frequently set my drishti on the parking lot just outside the big window, a parked car, or maybe one of the lights in the garage across the way.
Archive 2006-09-01 Jeff 2006
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Focusing on a drishti aids concentration, since it is easier to become distracted when the eyes are wandering all over the room.
Archive 2006-09-01 Jeff 2006
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