“As we Expand and Contract our bodies in our physical Yoga practice, be clear in what you want to Expand and Contract off the mat in the beautiful vibration of your lives.”

SPANDA
 Pulsation, Expansion, Contraction

“Spanda” is a Sanskrit word meaning “divine vibration” or pulse. This term is used to describe how consciousness moves in waves of contraction and expansion at the most subtle level.

According to Kashmir Shaivism, is the creative pulse of the Absolute as it manifests into the dynamism of Relative form. It might be understood as the universal desire to manifest, like an eternal spring, joyfully over-flowing and always full.”
– Dyczkowski, Mark S. G. The Doctrine of Vibration.

In other words, there is the consciousness from which everything continuously arises (through expansion and contraction) due to the desire of consciousness to manifest (in form). Spanda is the energy that creates and permeates all life.

When we consider this, everything feels so present, active and alive, the opposite of stagnation and inertia. We also focus more on the moment as it comes into being, rather than seeing things in linear form. Nothing is perfectly still, down to the smallest subatomic particle everything is in motion, pulsating or vibrating.