 What brought you to your yoga practice?
I tried yoga in high school and loved it, but had focused on my on-again-off-again relationship with cardio for the past years. Last summer, I attended yoga classes at Gallagher Way hosted by Five Keys, and I fell in love with yoga as a communal and cultural practice. I've been attending a class at least once a week ever since. What benefits did you notice once you started practicing consistently? Immediately, I experienced pain relief in my hips and back. I grew in confidence, and experienced a much deeper relationship with my body; one based on respect and love for its capabilities. Those things make it easy to turn yoga into a priority in my schedule. What would you now tell yourself before you started practicing yoga? I would tell myself that respecting and honoring what my body is capable of is much more important than meeting my own expectations of image. Health is so much more holistic than you think. How I show up to class mentally is almost as important as the practice.
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 Photo by Ashley Batz on Unsplash No one can deny his own being. - Ramana Maharshi This blog post is part of our Yoga Sutras series. Want to start at the beginning? Yoga Sutra 4.4 निर्माणचित्तान्यस्मितामात्रात् Nirmāṇa cittāny asmitā mātrāt Fluctuations of the mind are created solely from the sense of individuality. Patanjali’s explanation of karma extends to our own psychology in Sutra 4.4. If we think back to Yoga Sutra 1.2, wherein Patanjali explains the concept of citta, or the fluctuations of mind we call thought, remember that Patanjali defines yoga as calming these fluctuations.
Now Patanjali tells us that the citta is born solely from our sense of individuality or in other words, from our ego. Ego is not inherently bad but it is the thing giving rise to our thoughts and what we must overcome in order to feel at peace in all situations we encounter in our lives. |
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