We don't find yoga, but yoga finds us. That’s something in our life, the universe responds to our readiness to benefit from what yoga has to offer us and then it presents us with an invitation, our willingness is up to us. With becoming such an industry around the globe in so many shades and forms, finding the most authentic yoga or yoga teacher may be a challenge. The more popular yoga gets, the less concerned people become about its origins in history.
Six years ago I took my first yoga class, and I found something my soul had been yearning for. Few years after I did my first TT, then I went to Guatemala with Will and the Hathavidya family, then I knew I found my teacher. It was challenging at times, but after practicing my sadhana, I started to feel so many changes in my self. The path of knowledge and the path of action leads to Self realization if done with the correct orientation.
In the Bhagavad Gita, the word yoga appears as a solution Krishna offers Arjuna for overcoming his inability to participate in life. The first 3 chapters talk about Arjuna's sorrow, which itself is yoga. Sorrow is the beginning of yoga. Duhkha being the cause for seeking yoga, itself becomes yoga. There comes a time in our lives when we want to seek spiritually -- which for me means going beyond my limited 5 sense perception and finding something more than the physical. Yoga helps us to disassociate with all kinds of sorrows. If things are good in our lives most of the time, we don't try to rise above, we usually enjoy the comfort zone.
In Chapter 6 verses 42-43:
"Or he is born in a family of yogis rich in wisdom. Verily, such a birth is hard to gain in this world. There he comes in touch with the knowledge acquired in his former body, O son of the Kurus, And strives still further for perfection"
Aside from the obvious reincarnation, this verse could be pointing towards the value of surrounding oneself with other people (or sangha) practicing yoga to motivate and sustain one's practice. Being reborn into such a company can feel like a new start. As I believe now, that in my previous life I practiced yoga, and now in this lifetime the seed is within me. Yoga is a journey to our inner self.
For yoga in the Gita is a rich, complex experience engaging so much in life and human existence. Yoga is a clear, discerning, dynamic participation in one's life. It occurs when life is happening. Yoga is a lifestyle. "One has to act" -- action is what sustains the world.
Keeping my sadhana practice as a ritual is probably the most important tool in my life. Living my life with devotion, love and gratitude.
Six years ago I took my first yoga class, and I found something my soul had been yearning for. Few years after I did my first TT, then I went to Guatemala with Will and the Hathavidya family, then I knew I found my teacher. It was challenging at times, but after practicing my sadhana, I started to feel so many changes in my self. The path of knowledge and the path of action leads to Self realization if done with the correct orientation.
In the Bhagavad Gita, the word yoga appears as a solution Krishna offers Arjuna for overcoming his inability to participate in life. The first 3 chapters talk about Arjuna's sorrow, which itself is yoga. Sorrow is the beginning of yoga. Duhkha being the cause for seeking yoga, itself becomes yoga. There comes a time in our lives when we want to seek spiritually -- which for me means going beyond my limited 5 sense perception and finding something more than the physical. Yoga helps us to disassociate with all kinds of sorrows. If things are good in our lives most of the time, we don't try to rise above, we usually enjoy the comfort zone.
In Chapter 6 verses 42-43:
"Or he is born in a family of yogis rich in wisdom. Verily, such a birth is hard to gain in this world. There he comes in touch with the knowledge acquired in his former body, O son of the Kurus, And strives still further for perfection"
Aside from the obvious reincarnation, this verse could be pointing towards the value of surrounding oneself with other people (or sangha) practicing yoga to motivate and sustain one's practice. Being reborn into such a company can feel like a new start. As I believe now, that in my previous life I practiced yoga, and now in this lifetime the seed is within me. Yoga is a journey to our inner self.
For yoga in the Gita is a rich, complex experience engaging so much in life and human existence. Yoga is a clear, discerning, dynamic participation in one's life. It occurs when life is happening. Yoga is a lifestyle. "One has to act" -- action is what sustains the world.
Keeping my sadhana practice as a ritual is probably the most important tool in my life. Living my life with devotion, love and gratitude.
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