7 Things Yoga has Taught Me About Life
1. Resistance only makes things harder.
If you strain your body or over-compensate while attempting a yoga pose, the move inevitably becomes more difficult. You’re trying too hard. Your fear of “doing it wrong” creates resistance. If you impose your will to try to make the pose look a certain way, you will instead be more rigid where you should be flexible.
Instead of resisting the sensation of imbalance, submit to the acknowledgment that you may fall over or look imperfect for a brief moment in time. Accepting the potential for imperfection is at the beginning of the path to achieving grace.
2. You can’t rush into balance.
If you more too quickly into a balancing posture such as vrikshasana (tree pose) or bakasana (crow pose), you will probably sway and may fall over. Only from a place of stability can you find balance in times of instability.
Rather than rushing into a balancing pose, take a breath before getting into the posture, set yourself up correctly, then move slowly into it until the movement becomes fluid. Continue to breathe throughout the pose. This…
