Place the ball between your hands and knees. Keep your Yoga poses 2 person easy arms straight. Begin by first moving the ball back and forth gently between your hands and Yoga poses 2 person easy knees. Keep your spine long, and your skull on the floor without arching your neck or lower back. This placement activates your core. BEGINNER Un-Crunches Raise your head, neck, and shoulders off the floor, without pressing too hard with your hands. The spine should remain stable on the ground, without arching. Keep your tailbone firmly on the floor.
In the end, all yoga efforts were dependent on the grace of Siva, according to Abhinavagupta. This claim is very similar to the monotheistic rhetoric of Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita – the Yogi and his efforts are lost without the grace of god.
In best Saivite tradition, Abhinavagupta finally declared that awakening could happen spontaneously without any efforts if – and only if – Siva decided to take possession of the self and let Sakti in. So, with a single stroke, all yoga efforts were made redundant. This divine intervention – through the activation of Sakti energies – was a much faster way to realise the non-duality of Siva. In fact, said Abhinavagupta, yoga effort was based on a mistaken dualist assumption – yoga wrongly assumed that there was a difference between the adept and Siva as there existed nothing but Siva (non-duality) (Vasudeva 2000).
