Polarity Yoga for Health - Simple Stretches for All Ages

fields, thus neutralizing and uniting them by extension and blending, is the alchemical process of TRUE YOGA FOR HEALTH, in the constitution of the body.

We cannot re-enter the womb of Nature and its neuter [neutral] gestation field, but we can imitate Nature's process in overcoming resistance and energy blocks (or short circuits) by assuming neuter [neutral] postures of embryonic life, which is always resilient and flexible. It is a path of life rather than of force; of rest rather than of conquest. This blending of the colorful varieties of energy lines and arches of beauty and stress in our temple-building is constructive maintenance and a true art of soulful expression. Our soul is really a treasure-house of the Lord's eternal gifts, more precious than pearls and emeralds.

Health-Building Yoga for the Infirm, the Aged & the Healthy
More Gentle, Powerfully-Effective Tension Release Exercises^*

In dealing with sick persons, an entirely different Yoga is needed to help their suffering through directing their Pranic Energies and establishing a balance in their subtle energy body, which is at war with itself and suffering just now. So, all exercises must be designed for that purpose: to establish health through the Prana flow, where it has been stopped through the resistance of too much grossness or by emotional disturbances which created blocks through mental upsets, fixations and false impressions.

The mind is the Neuter [neutral] pole of the three Gunas. It is the Nucleus that governs the positive and the negative fields of the Pranas, the senses and the motion of the electromagnetic

* The rest of the text in this chapter is taken from an article Dr. Stone wrote for a South African newsletter in the 1970s, which was illustrated with photographs of many of his "Polarity Yoga" postures and exercises. Reprinted by permission of Mr. Sam Busa.^[1]

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¹ Sam Busa (?-2010), a leader and founder in the South African yoga movement.