Do you Yoga?

Yoga is connection. Connection to your inner world and connection to your outer world. What even does that mean?

Do you yoga?

The inner world

We inhabit a physical body – made up of physical parts: skin, muscles, organs, bones. Encasing and embracing thoughts, emotions, hopes, dreams – all that we are. Held in this life space by the power of prana – in the physical we might refer to this as ‘breath’. Yet the physical is more than a sum of all those parts – it all has to work together to create all that is ‘me’.

Yoga is a journey in and around this inner world – an exploration of the physical parts, a meander through the internal layers of the self. Moving the physical, exploring how the body feels – and perhaps connecting how years of life have impacted how the body is right now. How does it feel to work through this internal landscape?

Yoga is connection – travel on with the breath to infuse every part, every space between every part. Connect with your inner world. We are so much more than a sum of the individual parts.

The outer world

Even if we restrict the definition of ‘me’ to the space occupied by the physical body we must accept that we are actually part of the space around us. How we perceive and are seen to be ourselves. But avoiding meandering into how we are actually the universe – to yoga is to connect. To connect with the space around us – the surface we stand upon, connection to the Earth itself through the direct feeling of the feet on the soil, stones or sand. The air we breathe, the sounds or other frequencies we come into contact with. Sunrise, sunset, the sound of birds singing. Step back and use all the senses. To yoga is to connect – with all that makes up the space around us.

Yoga is more than a set of movements, more than a bit of stretching. Yoga literally is ‘to connect’.

Do you yoga?