These questions arise, sooner or later
in any relationship. "
"They reflect basic issues, important to us all
if our relationships are to survive and flourish. Relationship,
for those who truly practice it, is a potent yoga. It’s
parallels to yoga’s spiritual practice are many:
relationship stretches you to greater flexibility, furthers
your personal awakening, and leads you to your highest
self. It requires dedication, discipline, and daily
practice. "
“Contact's goal, like the true meaning of the
word yoga, is union.”
- Excerpt from “CONTACT: The Yoga of Relationship”
by Tara Guber
With Contact Yoga, Tara Guber presents an inspiring
new vision and philosophy of yoga created to inform
and enhance your relationships with friends, lovers
and yoga partners. Grounded in traditional yoga postures,
Contact Yoga explores that mysterious and dynamic edge
where two people connect - physically, emotionally,
and spiritually.
Offering valuable insight into the emotional and energetic
dynamics of relationships, CONTACT breaks down the barriers
that keep us trapped in separation by putting us deeper
in touch with ourselves and our partners at the same
time. Whether they’re just friends, passionate
lovers, yogis and yoginis in a class together or long-term
life partners, CONTACT opens the pathway to dynamically
discover the secrets of a successful and fulfilling
relationship.
Using poses specifically designed for two practitioners
and utilizing the Seven Points of Contact: Trust, Passion,
Commitment, Love, Communication, Vision, and Union,
Contact Yoga brings relationship into the body, reflecting,
in graphic immediacy, our deepest patterns of connecting
and distancing, loving and protecting, giving and receiving,
patterns that usually remain unconscious. This exquisite
combination of openness and contact creates greater
connection and intimacy for the practitioners, increasing
their joy of being fully alive; and this joy is more
than doubled when shared with another. As a provocative
philosophy and dramatic practice for all who engage
with it, Contact Yoga is revolutionizing the image of
modern yoga and the dynamics of relationships.