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One reason I love yoga so much is the healing and transformative powers of the practice. Whether you are drawn to yoga for its physical benefits, to relieve stress or calm the mind, you will benefit in countless ways. This is true regardless of what type of yoga you practice or how many days a week you practice. In fact, one of yoga's greatest benefits is its ability to help bring about balance in your life. Sometimes we have a tendency to push ourselves in our lives and therefore we take the same approach to our yoga practice. Or, conversely, we tend to avoid certain parts of ourselves or resist working at the difficult parts of life and then we repeat that same behavior in the yoga room. If we have no awareness of our habits or tendencies then we actually move more into an extreme and unconscious state of being rather than wholeness and balance. So the objective is awakening ourselves with mindfulness and using the practice to create inner and outer harmony. This requires a lot more attention and effort than just working the poses in a physical manner or remaining performance oriented. That's what makes yoga fundamentally different from other forms of exercise or stretching. It is also what keeps us forever growing and learning. |
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Continue to next page to read excerpts from a recent interview that appeared in YOGASTUDIO Mill Valley's The Prana newsletter, February 2003. |
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