Stuff I Learned - Week #8
As a kid, I was famous for picking at scabs and digging up seeds to check on how their germination was coming along. As a result of this chronic tendency to mess with stuff, my father coined the acronym DFWI. Whenever Dad suspected that something impetuous, ill-thought or otherwise lacking consideration of the long-term was in the offing, he simply uttered the acronym DFWI to initiate a conversation. While my father left this plane almost 10-years ago, I can still clearly hear him saying DFWI. And as a yoga teacher, I still find myself thinking about DFWI when I consider some of the practices that are commonly taught. Breathing - at rest, during exercise and deepest (yoga pranayama) Deep breathing is one of the canonical practices of Hatha Yoga. Depending on the style and tradition of Yoga that you practice, deep breathing is most likely at least a part of what you consider yoga . While there are likely many benefits to this deep breathing, it's not a foregone conclusion