True Yoga is Simple: 13 Steps to Deepen Your Home Practice by Olga Yumasheva - HTML preview

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really feel things in their body. And now it’s

our turn to make our own self-exploration.

Unfortunately, we aren’t taught at school to

seek for knowledge inside ourselves. We only

learn how to get it from external sources. We

type in our request in Google Search and get

results within seconds. Having fast access to

tons of information - that’s what we are used

to.

Finding answers within ourselves takes time

and requires patience. But we cannot skip this

step, for yoga is not about intellectual

knowledge. It’s about direct experience. Not

just reading somewhere that Shoulderstand

helps you release the tension in the legs, but

really feeling whether this pose is right for

you.

There are multiple poses that give similar

health benefits. There’s no practical need to

work on all the 84 classical asanas. Doing too

many things, we’re likely to touch a bit on

everything and not go deep enough on

anything. The point of yoga is not to know

how to do all the poses intellectually. The goal

is to align with our nature.