Self acceptance and letting go of the unnecessary can be part of your life and yoga . When you let go and settle, you enter a peaceful and mysterious space inside, it's warmth heals you. This is the essence of the original art of yoga.
Health and fitness people dictate what we should do to improve ourselves through movement to be like them. But maybe there's another way - one where you and what you feel dictate your movement...
How yoga is practised and the way we live are connected. Fast paced living draws our attention away from us and we resist the present moment. In a culture of doing and performing, can yoga be used slowly to neutralise the compulsion to achieve and rush?
Your view what your'e actually doing in yoga will profoundly affect how you practise. One view is to make yoga 'shapes' with your body and the other is to use yoga to explore what you feel and learn from that. Let's explore the difference...