How to Practice Your Best Yoga
No matter which form of Yoga you practice, or teach, you begin to notice talent levels.
Our teachers may have instructed us not to be competitive, and to avoid judging, but that is what people do.
Judging time, speed, and distance can keep you safe in traffic; just as much as judging saved primal humans, who hunted and gathered for a living.
How do we avoid making comparisons to others and move forward in our Yoga practice? The answer is to look within and find contentment in your practice.
It will take time to find your way.
It takes years of study to be the best you can be at anything.
This is a time when taking the short cut to everything is mass marketed.
If you are told you can lose weight, permanently, in 30 days, do you believe it? This same lesson applies to Yoga and all aspects of life.
To improve at anything, you must invest time in practice, study - more practice and more study.
As much as advertisers might try to convince you otherwise, there is no quick fix for hard work and dedication.
In Hatha Yoga, photography and our competitive nature have created new sub-styles, which focus on being the best and winning.
To be honest, sport and fitness styles have a place in Yoga and in life.
Most of us have entered competition for something that we found significant.
It is part of life to compete, but that only scratches the superficial surface of fitness Yoga.
The experienced Hatha practitioner begins to realize that deeper aspects may point toward Raja, Karma, Jnana, and Bhakti Yoga practice.
We begin to see Yoga as a healer of many ailments.
This transition usually takes years to process, even if we study under the careful guidance of a competent Yoga teacher.
As much as some humans may try to avoid it, hard work and dedication are significant parts of life.
They build character and shape our way of thinking.
In fact, humanity has plenty of hard work on the horizon.
We can deny global warming, as we see glaciers and mountain tops melt; or we can work together toward solutions for future generations.
In life, and in every form of Yoga practice, we begin to understand that natural talent will carry us only to a finite point.
In order to move beyond that point, we have to invest in research and development.
© Copyright 2009 - Paul Jerard / Aura Publications
Our teachers may have instructed us not to be competitive, and to avoid judging, but that is what people do.
Judging time, speed, and distance can keep you safe in traffic; just as much as judging saved primal humans, who hunted and gathered for a living.
How do we avoid making comparisons to others and move forward in our Yoga practice? The answer is to look within and find contentment in your practice.
It will take time to find your way.
It takes years of study to be the best you can be at anything.
This is a time when taking the short cut to everything is mass marketed.
If you are told you can lose weight, permanently, in 30 days, do you believe it? This same lesson applies to Yoga and all aspects of life.
To improve at anything, you must invest time in practice, study - more practice and more study.
As much as advertisers might try to convince you otherwise, there is no quick fix for hard work and dedication.
In Hatha Yoga, photography and our competitive nature have created new sub-styles, which focus on being the best and winning.
To be honest, sport and fitness styles have a place in Yoga and in life.
Most of us have entered competition for something that we found significant.
It is part of life to compete, but that only scratches the superficial surface of fitness Yoga.
The experienced Hatha practitioner begins to realize that deeper aspects may point toward Raja, Karma, Jnana, and Bhakti Yoga practice.
We begin to see Yoga as a healer of many ailments.
This transition usually takes years to process, even if we study under the careful guidance of a competent Yoga teacher.
As much as some humans may try to avoid it, hard work and dedication are significant parts of life.
They build character and shape our way of thinking.
In fact, humanity has plenty of hard work on the horizon.
We can deny global warming, as we see glaciers and mountain tops melt; or we can work together toward solutions for future generations.
In life, and in every form of Yoga practice, we begin to understand that natural talent will carry us only to a finite point.
In order to move beyond that point, we have to invest in research and development.
© Copyright 2009 - Paul Jerard / Aura Publications
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