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from: http://prasaraprimer.com/Who Says Yoga Has To Be Boring?Forget Everything You Think You Know About Yoga – Prasara Is A Dynamic Method Of Practice That Will Help You Move Better And Feel Better While Learning Fun And Interesting Ways To Move Your Body.OK, let’s be hon­est here — you’ve heard of yoga before, so it’s not as if you’re com­ing to this page expect­ing to have your mind blown. You’ve prob­a­bly seen some pic­tures of dudes in pur­ple leo­tards and noticed those $12 DVDs at Wal-Mart. You’re not read­ing this page with­out some pre-existing idea of what yoga is.Please don’t judge us based on what you’ve seen in the past.Prasara Is Different. Really.First, we should let you know that we have noth­ing but respect for tra­di­tional yoga styles. We’ve prac­ticed a vari­ety of them over the years, and you can get a lot out of that kind of practice.It’s a well-established fact that prac­tic­ing Yoga will help you increase flex­i­bil­ity and learn to relax, and var­i­ous stud­ies have shown it to cor­re­late to just about any marker of good health you can think of. You know all this already, so we’re not going to go on about why you should prac­tice yoga. How­ever, we do want to tell you about what makes Prasara unique and what it can do for you.The short story is that Prasara was cre­ated to develop Flow. We’ll talk more about this later, but the gist is that Flow is a qual­ity of move­ment in which you can tran­si­tion smoothly form one thing to another.Flow is also a men­tal state some­times referred to by ath­letes as “being in the zone.”Actu­ally, Flow is a lot of things, and that can make it dif­fi­cult to describe — and even harder to learn. But it isn’t impos­si­ble, and we’ve been teach­ing it for years to our pri­vate clients, in live sem­i­nars and work­shops, and though this course, the Prasara Primer.The unique ele­ment of Prasara prac­tice as opposed to most other styles of yoga is sim­ply that tra­di­tional yoga is fix­ated on sit­ting in poses while Prasara shifts the empha­sis to the tran­si­tions between poses. You’ll still use the same pos­tures and posi­tions, but we’ll also work on your abil­ity to “flow” from one to the next so you can develop real agility, grace, power, and yes, Flow in every­thing you do.Within your first month using the Prasara Primer, you’ll:Restore your self-confidence as you mas­ter increas­ingly chal­leng­ing movements.Chal­lenge your ner­vous sys­tem for increased move­ment effi­ciency.Boost power and mobil­ity simultaneously.Play bet­ter at any sport with increased bal­ance and spa­tial awareness.Neu­tral­ize pain from tight mus­cles and stiff joints.Min­i­mize sidelin­ing injuries and cor­rect the imbal­ances that cause them.Develop true func­tional mus­cle with­out excess bulk.Tap into the unlim­ited cre­ativ­ity and spon­tane­ity inside you.Prac­tice any­time, any­where – with no equip­ment and min­i­mal space.After you’ve used Prasara for two months, you’ll won­der at how much bet­ter you feel in your body and your over­all phys­i­cal prowess and agility. Guaranteed.I have prac­ticed yoga for the last 18 years and seen a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent teach­ing styles. Some styles of yoga exist in an almost mys­ti­cal shroud: exclu­sive cliques prac­tic­ing a dif­fi­cult series of move­ments. Other styles pre­scribe a rigid, unchange­able series of pos­tures. The won­der­ful thing about Prasara yoga is the intu­itive, open man­ner in which it can be practiced.The Prasara Primer is an excel­lent start­ing point. The mate­r­ial is phe­nom­e­nally user-friendly, and the clear, open tone of the Primer will enable any­body at any fit­ness level to get started imme­di­ately on a life­long Prasara practice.JB — Nashville, TNIs Prasara Really The Best style Of Yoga?We’re not going to tell you that Prasara is bet­ter than any other kind of yoga. That would be silly.There’s no such thing as a “best” way to move your body. There are wrong ways — inju­ri­ous ways, like those awful stretches your high school gym coach used to make you do — but the beauty of yoga is that most of the poses are very dif­fi­cult to do in a way that could cause you to hurt yourself.Yoga is gen­tle (not to be con­fused with pas­sive), and Prasara espe­cially empha­sizes mov­ing smoothly from one posi­tion to another, so you don’t have any jar­ring or wrench­ing effects that could pull a muscle.But, though we won’t claim it’s the “best,” we will tell you that Prasara is the most fun style of yoga around.While many styles of yoga insist on fol­low­ing a set sequence of how­ever many poses for how­ever many min­utes, the ulti­mate goal of prac­tic­ing Prasara is to teach you to flow with­out think­ing of what comes next. Yes, in the begin­ning, you’ll be prac­tic­ing rou­tines (this course includes six of them — more about those later), but through prac­tic­ing the rou­tines, you’ll actu­ally be giv­ing your body the vocab­u­lary of move­ment you need in order to impro­vise your own movements.That last bit is the real magic of Prasara and what makes it such a nat­ural fit for athletes.The Prasara Yoga / Martial Arts ConnectionIt’s no secret that fight­ers are some of the most ver­sa­tile and adapt­able ath­letes around. You kind of have to be if you’re job requires you to per­form while simul­ta­ne­ously try­ing to avoid get­ting socked in the face.But what a lot of peo­ple don’t know is that mar­tial arts and yoga have an awful lot in common.We’re mar­tial artists. Between the three of us, we’ve trained in a dozen dif­fer­ent styles and com­peted on four con­ti­nents. We wouldn’t waste our time train­ing any­thing that didn’t allow us to deliver pow­er­ful strikes and kicks with speed and precision.In the ring, noth­ing is pre­dictable. It looks like chaos out there, but the fight­ers have to adapt with agility and grace (the best fight­ers are always grace­ful). It might sur­prise you to learn that the key to devel­op­ing speed, power, and pre­ci­sion under pres­sure comes from prac­tic­ing pre-determined rou­tines over and over.In tra­di­tional mar­tial arts, they’re called kata, but many mod­ern arts also make heavy use of “flow drills” in which part­ners rehearse pre­set attack and defense pat­terns to mas­ter var­i­ous skills. As they get bet­ter and more effi­cient, the drill is altered to become just a lit­tle more dif­fi­cult. With enough prac­tice, advanced moves hap­pen with­out any thought — like sec­ond nature — and that’s how fight­ers pre­pare every tech­nique they plan to use in a match.We do the same thing with Prasara.In the begin­ning, we’ll show you a short sequence of move­ments. After some prac­tice, we’ll add more. Even­tu­ally, it will start to get eas­ier, and you’ll notice that your body sails through the tran­si­tions more effi­ciently, with no wasted movements.That’s when we level up. Change the drill.Each of the five core Primer flow rou­tines have three lev­els of dif­fi­culty so you can step up grad­u­ally from the most basic vari­a­tions of each move­ment to advanced forms that you wouldn’t have even attempted in the beginning.Since you’ll always be able to choose the appro­pri­ate level of prac­tice for any flow, you’ll never have to worry about a move­ment being too hard or advanced for you. Just prac­tice the level that fits, and over time, you’ll find that you can move on to the higher lev­els of each movement.Going with the Flow – On the Field and OffThough it’s per­fect for mar­tial artists, you don’t have to be a fighter to ben­e­fit from prac­tic­ing Prasara. Prasara is pos­si­bly the most ath­letic style of yoga out there because of its dynamic move­ments and focus on Flow.If you’re an ath­lete in any sport, you already know what Flow is. Your focus tight­ens, and the out­side world fades away. You breathe deeper. Time slows down. You get tun­nel vision, and the path between you and your goal opens up. You don’t have to think about what to do — you just act, spon­ta­neously, in the moment.Even if you’re not an ath­lete, you’ve prob­a­bly expe­ri­enced flow while dri­ving on the high­way, play­ing a musi­cal instru­ment, or doing some­thing else that requires a relaxed concentration.Flow feels good, and when you’re in it, you don’t want it to end.Even if you’re not the “sporty” type, you know that one of the least use­ful things an ath­lete can do is to stand per­fectly still dur­ing a match. In fact, that might just be the fastest way to lose in most sports.No, ath­letes have to move. So it’s impor­tant that a yoga style designed to develop ath­letic move­ment not spend too much time sit­ting still.That’s why Prasara is built on “the move­ment between the move­ments.” Feel­ing bal­anced and cen­tered is easy when you sit per­fectly still, but you can’t do that all the time. Your life demands that you get out and inter­act with chal­lenges in the world. For most peo­ple, Flow is a frag­ile state that crum­ples when it comes in con­tact with the slight­est change, but you can develop a stronger Flow by teach­ing your body how to tran­si­tion through change.To get bet­ter as adapt­ing to the unex­pected (like an opponent’s right hook — or another car sud­denly chang­ing lanes), you must prac­tice chang­ing — tran­si­tion­ing — from one move­ment (the one you planned) to a dif­fer­ent one (that adapts to the chang­ing environment).If an ath­lete can’t access Flow, they can’t play their best. They make the wrong choices, their bod­ies will be a step behind their minds, and they’ll keep get­ting caught off-guard when things don’t go accord­ing to plan.And that’s when injuries happen.Prasara Is Like Injury Insurance For AthletesYou’ve prob­a­bly seen videos of ath­letes get­ting injured. These videos are painful to watch — not only because we can see an injury occur­ring, but because we can see it com­ing before they do.When ath­letes get sur­prised, they get hurt.The ball trav­els in an unex­pected direc­tion. Another player attacks from an unex­pected angle. They step on a slip­pery patch. They get faked out.Things hap­pen that we can’t pre­dict or control.Prasara yoga is like injury insur­ance for ath­letes because it trains you to always be ready to adapt to changes. If you can’t move the way you had planned, you sim­ply tran­si­tion to a dif­fer­ent posi­tion. Flow to the next move­ment and keep going. Side­step the other player. Jump to make the catch. Learn­ing to adapt can help you stay in the moment — in Flow — so you don’t get caught off-guard.And it’s the same thing off the court too.Be More Confident With Everyday MovementsAnd don’t think this just applies to ath­letes — we all use our bod­ies for a vari­ety of tasks every day, and it’s not uncom­mon to hear about peo­ple twist­ing an ankle step­ping off a curb or pulling a back mus­cle while bend­ing over to tie a show or pick up a dropped wallet.What would it be like to know that your body was pre­pared to adapt to any­thing that comes up?Flow isn’t just for sports — it means more con­fi­dence in every step. More power and assur­ance when you open a door and enter a room. More agility to nav­i­gate the unex­pected chal­lenges life throws at you every sin­gle day. And all of this trans­lates to more effec­tive and effi­cient move­ments that leave you with less stress, more energy, and a greater feel­ing of mas­tery in your environment.Yoga For Your LifestyleAnd that’s the most impor­tant thing, after all: apply­ing Prasara to YOUR life.It’s great for us to talk about how we use Prasara, but it’s got to make sense to you if you’re going to prac­tice it. You’ve got to know that Prasara will work for your sit­u­a­tion and for your body. And it will, by the way. We’ve seen Prasara help peo­ple from all dif­fer­ent back­grounds achieve a wide range of goals with this prac­tice. It will help you too.Whether you want to improve your ath­letic per­for­mance or just enjoy play­ing with your kids (or grand­kids), Prasara prac­tice will teach you to move with more con­trol and ease. You’ll find greater mobil­ity and con­fi­dence in every­thing you do with your body. And you’ll have fun.Of course, if you can’t make Prasara prac­tice fit your lifestyle, it won’t help you.Sim­ply put, you’re going to have to prac­tice if you want to see any ben­e­fits. So we’ve spent a lot of time design­ing the Primer to be easy to get started with and sim­ple to fol­low from the begin­ning, whether you’ve prac­ticed yoga or years or have no prior expe­ri­ence. The Primer is made to fit into your life now, no mat­ter how busy you are or what other activ­i­ties you have in your life. We’ll show you how to make Prasara work for you so you can get all the ben­e­fits of this practice.You won’t have to devote a cer­tain amount of time every day to prac­tice. Though you’ll see faster results with more work, just a few min­utes at a time is enough to get started, and you can lit­er­ally do this any­where, with no equip­ment or spe­cial clothing.