The Yoga Sutras: Cultivate Your Practice
Make Your Body Feel Good
Would that life were like yoga, our bodies gravitating towards the things that feel good.
So often, the pain has been normalized, and so we gravitate towards that instead.
How do you unlearn that?
You’ve gotta cultivate your practice, tend to the fertile earth of your soul.
It starts with the breath.
During yoga, we use our breath as an anchor. Think of it sinking deeper and deeper to ground you. Remaining rooted in the breath allows you to stay present during your practice.
When we practice yoga, we engage in poses that feel good to our body and mind.
The goal is to make the poses feel like you’re getting a massage!
It’s during these feel-good poses we can start to notice the breath and bring some awareness into our breathing.
Yoga should not be about uncomfortably twisting your body! The poses need to have ease and flow so life can have ease and flow.
When you overdo it and yoga doesn’t feel good, that’s the ego getting in the way. It’s saying, “I wanna be the best at this!” but you need to work to cultivate your practice.
It will not and should not come to you immediately.
Guys, as humans we gotta suffer a little bit. It sucks but we know that it’s for good reason
It takes constant practice before you experience that appreciative joy because there are so many opportunities to suffer in this world.
The Essential Yoga Sutras says, “Changing the mind, the heart is infinitely more difficult than anything else we do - more demanding than education or work or raising a family. It takes time, and we need to give it that time, for as long as it takes.”
Know that at that moment your breath is connecting you to reality and because you are breathing, and because it feels good, you are right where you need to be.
Be in the moment. Enjoy it. Know that nothing needs to change because it’s always changing.
I cultivate my practice by:
💛 Setting goals
💛 Making time
💛 Listening to my body
💛 Accepting that I’m not perfect
Go at your own pace to give you room to grow. You need to be at peace and that is what we are cultivating in our yoga practice!
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