My art: sasangasana, the rabbit pose in yoga

 At night I had an experience of immersion in the depths of my psyche and in the morning my body started to feel discomfort: the psychic energy, moving in the body could not come into balance and created a sense of hypertonia. I moved spontaneously, changing position of the body, trying to find a pose in which it would be possible to experience complete relaxation. At some point the pose was found. And I froze in this position in enjoyment. The energy in the body became smooth, everything was in balance.

 I did not know anything about yoga then. But from the back of my mind a thought came to me that what I'm doing seems to be somewhat like yoga. I got interested with this discovery. And the next day I started to learn about yoga from books, and soon I found myself teachers.

 The illustration that I painted in mixed technique (oil plus liner pen) demonstrates sasankasana or hare posture. It is the position that I was curled up in that morning. It was how I started my yoga. And it also started my series of illustrations dedicated to yoga. The amazing thing is that when I was drawing this picture, I did not put those facts together and recognised this coincidence only much later. After all, our consciousness works wonders.

 This series is expected to contain 11 more illustrations, covering a variety of yoga postures, and I hope I will finish it someday :)

 Enjoy!