I’ve found that making a soundtrack for my yoga practice helps tremendously. Plus, it’s the music that puts me in a relaxed state, not what some fitness instructor or corporation that made a yoga DVD and CD thinks relaxes me. Instead of ocean waves and birds I have classical music, soundtrack songs, Asian pop, and a couple of new-agey things thrown in for good measure. Each piece around the approximate time I need to hold an asana.
So the three songs I’ve listed above (1 soundtrack, 2 new-agey, all Chilly Willy) are what play as I lay in the final corpse pose, eyes half focused, trying to make my brain stop running. And I see the mobile twirling above me. It’s rather surreal when my eyes come back into focus – like a Miro in motion.
