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#tbt blog archives again. i am writing more, but this one from 2011 made me giggle. Response I can’t stop thinking about this elephant journal article I read this morning. It was this woman saying she’s “broken up with yoga”. I’m sure she thought she was being real funny, but the article made me angry. Now some of that is my own ego crap; what do you mean you don’t like this thing that I like? what’s wrong with you stupid? At first I just chalked my reaction up to that. But the more I thought about it the more I realized that this woman- who says she had a 10 year yoga practice, but has broken up with yoga for a mindfulness meditation practice- has never actually practiced yoga. And here she is telling anyone who will listen how yoga isn’t right for her. First of all, yoga and mindfulness mediation= same thing! You can’t practice yoga without meditating. You can put your body into yoga asanas, get yourself a hot yoga butt and maybe even grab a little peace and calm without meditating, but you cannot practice yoga. The reason I’m so mad at this lady is her article will turn some people off yoga. There will be people thinking of trying it out who read the article and then decide not to! We need more people to practice yoga, not less!!! Aaarrrggg @#$%@$^%#!!!!!!!!! Deep ujjayi breath, I’m better now. See kids, yoga is for everyone. Here’s the problem, what do you think of when I say yoga? If you don’t practice, you might have vague pictures of hippies in tight pants chanting and breathing at each other. If you do practice you might have vague pictures of hippies in tight pants chanting and breathing at each other, or you might think of getting your ass kicked so hard you have no choice but to meditate, you might think of lifting off into a high-flying inversion, you might think of post savasana bliss. But none of these things are Yoga. They are things that might help you achieve yoga, but that’s not it. Yoga is the calming of the whirlpools...
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:05:17 +0000

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