As you are into yoga, you call yourself a yogi by regularly unrolling your yoga mat, attending to yoga classes and workshops. You do not struggle with downward dog and understand certain sequences of the yoga practice and are able to follow the Sanskrit guided class – you are a yogi.
You are being complimented on your look, you have a posture of a ballerina (all those yoga twist and bends are keeping your spine straighter and longer therefore you look leaner and younger!). You sleep much better, feel healthier and lighter and you watch your diet; in order words you are conscious about what you fuel your body with.
Physically –as good as it gets! Right?
Since you are a yogi and yoga is the union of the body and mind, let’s talk about your mind…..how is it, where is it during your yoga practice, your yogic life?
Only this morning I stumbled upon a London traffic situation: a saw a co-cyclist, in the peak AM hour talking on her phone and eating her brekkie.
WOW! Was my first thought; this chick can multitask: cycling on this glorious morning, getting some friends catch up chats and digesting her food- all in one!
WOW, was my second thought, is she safe in this traffic, is she saving on time, is she enjoying consciously any of those activities?
Probably not. I was tempted to ask her the above questions but she was too quick on the traffic lights where I stopped for the red and indulged in the sunny freckles hunting.
Urban life is busy, manic, in fact hectic and you gotta be organised, quick and efficient in order to make the living is such a cruel jungle happening and in order to keep your social life intact.
No questions about need of that efficiency but where does it leave us, when and where do we actually do that living and enjoying it? While planning the next best thing or dwelling on the past?
Yoga, the asana practice not coincidently reminds us about the present, refers as to acknowledgment of our breath, our easiest conscious reference to the NOW.
Next time you’re on your yoga mat, listen to the instructions of the teacher, follow your breath, trust its guidance and follow it with your mind.
You might see the magic happening there; the quality of the state you are being in, the calmness and acceptance of your feelings, thoughts and bodily sensations.
The strength and confidence, the grounding and centring in your unique life path.
The mental and physical therapy.
The mindfulness. The magic. Use your yoga practice to explore it!
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