February 2, 2024
Off the Wagon
Elizabeth Brass
Certified Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher & Yoga Therapist (IAYT)
It's the small progressions in ourselves that often go unseen.
By not recognizing our own progress, it's easy to become frustrated.
The positive changes in our posture, in our energy, in our outlook over time are impossible to measure.
Because we can't measure the transformations that occur in us from our yoga practice, they go under valued.
I've been hearing the same thing from different people. They're having a hard time practicing yoga for themselves – yet again! They had a home practice, 10-20 minutes daily, they did a few asanas which helped them feel stronger, flexible, and calm and then either they got an injury, illness, or a life event happened that threw them off their routine. The longer the break from their yoga practice lasted, the harder it was to get back into it and even to make it to yoga class.
Someone said to me last week, that I probably don't understand these experiences because I'm a yoga teacher. Oh, yes, I do! Yoga teachers are yoga students and yoga students are people, and we're all just struggling to get by and feel okay, day to day. The challenges in living life are the same challenges in practicing yoga. We confront ourselves and our difficulties all along the way, our resistances, our pleasures, and our small wins.
This is the reason why every year, I offer a How to Practice Yoga at Home Workshop. This topic was the first themed yoga workshop that I ever taught because it's so important for every yoga practitioner. Iyengar yoga is unique in that it offers an endless variety of home practice possibilities appropriate for every age and health condition. Often, the hardest thing is to know what to practice and when, and these are some of the topics that we will cover in my workshop at Iyengar Yoga Zentrum Berlin and online on February 18th, 1:00-4:00pm.
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