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Yoga 101: 5 Things Every Beginning Yoga Student Should Know
If my disadvantage and restriction to continue promoting yoga in Kuala Lumpur have somehow inspired you to start (taking up) yoga seriously – please find this sharing helpful!
( From Spoiled Yogi )
I’m always amazed at the rampant misconceptions about yoga. Even here in the San Francisco Bay Area, where yoga studios are as common as Starbucks, people think yoga is all about stretching and being healthy. I guess it can be that, but it can also be much more. Here are the things I wish everyone understood about yoga.
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1. It doesn’t matter how flexible or inflexible you are.
Really. Being flexible won’t make you happier. There’s no prize. Stop suffering and learn to love the body you have!
I can only do the split at my fourth year of yoga, don’t kid yourself.
2. Don’t get hung up on how you look in a pose.
Everyone else in class is focusing on their own pose. They don’t care how you look (unless you’re wearing a thong). Let this be your first lesson in ego management.
Take it from Madonna, don’t get ‘HUNG UP’!
3. It’s OK if you don’t know what the Sanskrit words mean.
The only people in the room who do are teachers or big yoga dorks.
The name of this Ashtanga Primary Series pose is Kukkutasana, go figure what it’s called in English
4. It’s not religious!
—unless you want it to be. Your practice should be unique to you. You’re allowed to make it as spiritual, religious, fitness oriented (or not) as you want. (If someone tells you otherwise, please have them call me.)
Assalamualaikum AND Namaste mean the very same (Peace Be Upon You)!
5. Yoga is an art form, a science, a lifestyle, and a philosophy.
But more than anything, it’s a way to get to know yourself better. And that’s something that benefits us all.
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JUST get on the mat and soon enough you’ll be standing on your head (and look 10 years younger. And weigh 10 pounds lighter. And feel 10 inches taller, I can keep going on and on and on..), before you know it!
Love and have fun going crazy watching World Cup final!
