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ayannakafi:

I find myself being asked this question a lot. Or at least, “What kind of yoga do you teach/study”, why and what does that mean? This line of questioning never fails to undo me. For me, yoga is life. Yoga of course means union. Yoking yourself. The path of transcending the lower mind and realizing what is greater. In my first yoga teacher training, Swami Jaya Devi explained that yoga was practicing with intention. If you are fully pouring yourself into the moment and whatever it is that you are doing, you are practicing yoga. At that moment I was reminded of what Sakyong Mipham said about enlightenment, that you could realize it even while washing dishes. That literally any moment could be one of awakening. Yoga is vast and complex. The thing that I have found more true the anything about my practice is that no matter how hard you fight it, no matter where your mind runs, the practice will do its work. Yoga is whole and complete. I joke to my friends that “yoga makes everything better” but that’s because it’s true. No matter who you are, there’s a yoga practice for you. The deeper I go in yoga, the more isolated I become and the less alone I feel. Yoga is empty and bursting. Endlessly complex, just like us.