What is yoga to you?

Yoga to me is...

• To attain what was previously unattainable – every change is yoga (and life).
• Attentiveness – being in the moment 100% to be the best you can be in whatever you are currently doing.
• “To be one with the divine” – Anything that brings us to the awarness that there is a higher being and something greater then ourselves.
• Asana - the physical pose.
• Pranayama (breath)

I encourage those who practice yoga, (if you have not already) to open your mind not just your body. To me Yoga is not* just the physical, that is just one of the building blocks to the core of what yoga can bring to your life.

Here is a quote by B. K. S Iyengar from Light on Life

" Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit the broken pieces together. Yoga allows you to find a inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life. Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed. To a yogi, freedom implies not being battered by the dualities of life, its up and downs, its pleasures and its suffering. It implies equanimity and ultimately that there is a inner serene core or one's being that is never out of touch with the unchanging, eternal infinite."