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Is it just me or did other people face a 'wall'

at a certain level of their practice? I feel like I

have to completely change my lifestyle to keep

practicing and that's overwhelming. Did anyone experience

making a choice such as this one? It is possible to

blend the practice into our modern lives, but I am

having a mental block about it.

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Wow, I have the same problem, there are always

people saying do Yoga six times a week, but I don't

think I can manage that. May be sometime. But I am

happy with my practice, I think that is important, to

forgive yourself if you are too busy one week to do a

full practice. I am lucky because I teach easy hatha

yoga to a few people at work so I get in a short easy

session twice a week. But as long as I do something

aerobic I am happy also.

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Probably everybody must feel at some point like

you actually have to fight various influences -- both

from outside and in -- either just to keep it up, or

to get more into it. I hate it when that happens!

But that is what happens on the great battleground,

right?<br><br>No pat answers, just a continuous struggle...

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It is for eveyone to decide how it works for

their life. I ended up changing my life a lot but it

happened gradually. Once I asked a teacher of mine How

will I know when to quit my day job? She said oh

you'll just know and I did.Maybe in the context of your

life three days a week, or whatever works. you don't

have to fit some rigid mold. Happy practice.

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Reaching a plateau in our practice has happened

to everyone I've ever swapped notes with. There are

times it seems the harder you try the harder it is.

With yoga, even Ashtanga Yoga, sometimes less is more.

My advice to you is, "Do what you can." If what your

doing now is to much, back off a bit. That's OK., but

do continue to practice. Just don't bite off more

than you can chew. Your personal practice will build

over time and those lifestyle changes that were

impossible before, will develop on there own for the most

part. <br>This is key -- continue your practice at some

consistent level. Choose a realistic (for you) amount of

time that you can devote to practice, and stick to it.

If you need help developing a shorter practice I

would love to be of service.<br>Yoga does work with a

modern life style.

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I guess this is what everyone means when they say

ashtanga is deeply transformative -- it infiltrates almost

every area of your life...I too am making gradual

lifestyle changes...changes I would have seen as nearly

impossible just a year and a half ago. But as I make the

changes I find that the practice prepares me for it and

strengthens my will so when the time comes it is not as

difficult as it would otherwise be...Also, as you begin to

change on a very deep internal, spiritual, psychological

level, Loss is also involved...but really what is the

alternative -- same old, same old? We are yogis meaning that

we are the people who need to move things around all

the time -- and that can be uncomfortable at times --

but it's growth. Anyway I'd be curious to know which

lifestyle changes you're experiencing and how they are

overwhelming...

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Yes, at the time I was working, raising kids and

teaching yoga part time. It was a real juggle but I felt

more and more drawn to teaching full time. So it took

several years to be the right time for that. It keeps

evolving over time.The place it has in your life can be

different say five years from now.

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Hi,<br><br>Yes, I feel like the whole "makeing it

fit" thing taken control. I take classes two times a

week. Then do my own pratice in the am every other day.

I work in sales and have to work into the evening

regularly. Then I'm trying to do a Yoga video when I miss a

class. My whole intention was to help me deal with

stress. Will it pay off?<br><br>Lewis

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I don't think it's just you at all, I think it's

quite normal and natural.<br><br>I've seen a lot of

people come and go in yoga and other activities. A lot

get really enthusiastic for a short while then

disappear again. A few reach a steady level of beneficial

practice that they find they can integrate with the rest

of their lives and carry on indefinitely at that

level. A tiny fraction find that this really is where

its at for them, and eventually end up making it

central to their lives, which might involve going

professional. (I wonder if really experienced teachers can spot

who's who among beginning students?) I don't mean this

as any kind of value judgement about the people who

fall into any of those categories, it's just something

that I've seen happening a lot.<br><br>I studied

karate for a few years, got to brown belt and realised

that if I wanted to go for black belt it meant a

serious commitment to making martial arts a big part of

my life, training for a couple of hours five days a

week. So my choice was make a serious commitment, be

content to trundle along at the middling level I was at,

or give up and do other things. I personally have

never been one for the "just trundle along" option

(again - just an observation about me, no value

judgement about other people intended or implied), and

decided this particular big commitment wasn't for me, so

I gave up. <br><br>When I reached a similar point

with yoga practice, it was completely obvious to me

that I do want this to be central to my life from now

on. It wasn't a question of making a difficult

choice, just seeing what I want to do and going with it.

What does that mean? I practice close to six days a

week and my practice takes precedence over most other

things. Am steadily becoming much more aware and careful

about what I eat and drink. Haven't given up the day

job and don't imagine that I will for a few years

yet, but I do plan to take several months off to go to

India next winter, and I work freelance in order to be

able to make that kind of choice.<br><br>"Completely

change my lifestyle to keep practicing" is putting it a

bit drastically. If you're going to be a serious

ashtanga yoga student you will have some choices to make

about priorities. And if you find you don't want to

make those particular choices about this particular

thing, that doesn't make you any worse a person than

someone who does.

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