The tarot can be traced back to 14th century Italy, and although tarot cards have been used as a divination tool in many cultures throughout history, today the tarot deck can be found in association with many other spiritual practices as well. One of those practices is yoga.
Although many yoga teachers and instructors were sceptics when it came to incorporating the tarot in their practice, now that it’s become more mainstream, a lot of them have started to notice its benefits and decided to give it a try.
What Does The Tarot Have To Do With Yoga?
If you’re coming across this combination of the tarot and yoga for the first time, you’ll likely have a few questions about it. Now that the tarot has become a widespread practice, many have decided to use it for meditation, yoga and other spiritual practices as well.
In combination with yoga, the tarot can heal and awaken your body and help you discover your authentic self. It can be used to gain insight into a particular situation or problem, and help you resolve it in a calm and peaceful way.
It can offer you insight into your wellbeing and help you clear your mind of potentially destructive and negative thoughts. Using the tarot as guidance for your yoga practice can encourage you to become more confident and learn to trust your own gut.
If you’re interested in learning how to implement the tarot in your yoga practice and use it as a tool to build both emotional and physical strength, as well as achieve harmony between the mind and the body, then read on. We’ll take a look at some of the ways in which you can do that.
How to Guide Your Yoga Practice Using the Tarot
The tarot can be a great way to introduce some variety into your yoga practice. There are several ways in which you can do this. Two of the most popular include:
1. Pulling a single card each day for a month
This is a very simple yet very effective process that you can use to combine the tarot with your yoga practice and let it guide your daily session. The way it works is you pull out a random card, you take a good look at it and begin meditating on it. You think about the meaning of the card, and how you can apply it to your daily life. You can also write an entry about it in your journal; an additional, very helpful practice. In this practice you won’t be focusing that much on the poses you’re doing but on your meditation and your thoughts.
2. The yoga tarot deck
Another common practice that combines yoga and the tarot is the yoga tarot deck challenge. This method is a bit different than the previous one, as the yoga poses you’ll be doing will be taken directly from the tarot cards. The best thing about this challenge is that you can decide on your own which yoga pose you want to associate with each specific card, as long as you can link each card to a particular pose in some way.
Since a typical tarot deck consists of 78 cards, this challenge should last 78 days as well.
However, these are not the only two ways in which you can combine the tarot in your yoga practice. You don’t even have to own a deck of tarot cards to get a tarot reading or to do any of these challenges. You can also get a completely free tarot reading online, which might even be a bit more convenient in some cases. You’ll have a professional tarot reader doing the interpretation of the cards for you, and you can even pick your reader’s brain on how to successfully combine the tarot in with your yoga practice.
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