Starting a yoga practice can feel daunting. Especially in the current climate, where pretty much everything we do, from the moment we wake to when we sleep, we’re made to feel like we can’t do anything unless we do it properly. Our culture disempowers us. We’re meant to buy the products to make us look better, feel better, the sub-text being you’re really not worth it — unless you splash out on all the expensive products.
Unfortunately, the business of yoga is no different. We’re made to feel like we’re not real yogis unless we buy a brand new, luxurious yoga mat. Not real yogis unless you have the branded leggings. And not a real yogi unless you practice a punishing workout of an hour a day of ‘advanced’ poses — which all lead to a perfect representation of a one-eyebrow stand, or whatever pose it is we’ve seen the skinny Instagram models performing.
But yoga is, at its heart, about connection. It’s about finding our own truth, about a path of self-enquiry and understanding. It’s about meeting ourselves exactly where we are. It’s about knowing that we’re not a project: we’re not born into a faulty body which needs to be fixed. It’s not about achievement of poses or looking a certain way. The journey of yoga is a process of learning to meet ourselves, exactly the way we are. It’s about finding a deep-rooted self-acceptance and compassion for ourselves. It’s about knowing that it’s only when we find that very deep compassion for ourselves that we can truly learn to be compassionate to others.
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