I went to Shala's Monday Evening class at AYC and as so often seems to be the case there found my self in new (to me) postures, that in 16 years of yoga practice I have never encountered. At one point she mentioned that a certain posture was good for breaking up scar tissue, and at that moment I was wondering what the subtle counterpart is for the tightness deep in my inner groin. head of the femur area. And it became clear that "scar tissue", being the physical expression of something that we hold on to, by choice or not, are the expression of samskaras, or habitual ways of experiencing, holding, expressing, believing thinking ect.
Samskara is a quality, it is a guna. It is the tendency to think, say, do, because we've doe it before. Samskara is self reproducing, and can take on a life of its own. Sometimes called thought forms samskaras's are subtle matter that arises out of nothingness because we create it. As we create it again and again it becomes
