Yoga

When I love, I am living Yoga.

Living Your Yoga, Lasater

Each of us has a dharma: a purpose, something to contribute to life. Perhaps happiness is the state that we feel when we find what it is that we can contribute with joy to the world.

Living Your Yoga, Lasater

Neither the pose, nor the teacher is creating the difficulty. The difficulty was there all along. The yoga pose just gives you a chance to expereince it and, it is hoped, release it.

Living Your Yoga, Lasater

In it’s broadest sense, yoga practice is about inviting what is unconscious to the surface so it an integrated into conscious awareness.

Living Your Yoga, Lasater

Working within the limits of the resistance means that we let go into exactly how the body is in this moment. We must be willing to do the pose as it is today, not how we think it should be. We may not like it, but it is the bedrock truth for us in that moment.

Living Your Yoga, Lasater

Our thoughts about the poses (asanas) reflect our thoughts about ourselves.

Living Your Yoga, Oriah

But here was a philosophy that accepted the potential of human movement as scared and worshipful.

Living Your Yoga, Lasater

Yoga’s resurgence of popularity is a reflection of our urge to reconnect with the sacred.

Living Your Yoga, Lasater