How To Have A Focused Gaze Video

Improve concentration and breathing with a focused gaze during yoga. Learn how to hold a focused gaze in yoga with this video.

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Turn attention inward
Concentrate following the head
Relax
Breathe through stressful situations

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Cindy Mastry has practiced yoga since the age of eight, and also has a background in Jazz and Ballet. Active in the fitness industry for nearly twenty years, she teaches aerobics, kickboxing, and yoga at many fitness centers in the Tampa Bay area. Cindy trained with 84 year-old Master Yogi Monk, Baba Hari Dass at the Mt. Madonna Center in California and owns/operates "Yoga Etc Studio" in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cindy teaches yoga to people of all ages and experience levels and at very competitive rates.

CINDY MASTRY: Namaste. When we speak of using a focused gaze in yoga we're talking about using a Drishti or a point of concentration. Once we're set in our pose and we're going to hold that pose we've got all the external forces of the pose taking place since its time to turn our attention internally and become aware. A tool to that is by using Drishti or a point of concentration. Generally, if the point of concentration goes with the movement of the head, you could gaze at the tip of the nose, you could gaze up to the sky, it could be to your hands, it could be to the far right or the far left, sometimes the gaze is to the navel. And this focused gaze allows us to bring the external internal, allows us to stay in the posture a lot longer. So why do we need the whole postures? When we hold postures that are uncomfortable we learn to breathe through it, we learn to relax through it and learn to take our time and how to work it through. So when you take your yoga off your mat and your faced with an uncomfortable situation, you can learn how to breathe through that rather than getting yourself all upset when somebody cuts you off when you're driving or gets that sweater you wanted to buy or whatever it might be. You can learn to live your life in a calm focus manner. The Drishti or focused gaze helps us do that.

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