Guest guest Posted October 26, 1999 Report Share Posted October 26, 1999 > What does it mean to be a yogi? Please let me > > know. Jeanette > > A yogi is committed to a practice of yoga with the goal of experiencing a > union with the divine in the human experience. > > Sat Nam, > > Rattana Hello, I am new to the list and will pose some questions by way of introduction. I am blessed with an inquiring mind. I like the definition of a yogi provided by Rattana, thank you very much Rattana! It is simple. I am curious about the part "committed to a practice of yoga". I have noticed over time in my own life that what is a good yoga practice for me at one point has become bad for me later on. I have seen my practice change quite often and even drastically as a result of this. I presume these shifts in what was helpful to me occurred primarily because my needs changed (or maybe because my environment changed). I am curious if anyone else would care to share how their practice of yoga has changed over time. Have there been yoga practices that were helpful to you at one point that became clearly not helpful on down the road? Which ones? Have you tried practices and found them not to be helpful and then months or years later eased into them like putting on a warm pair of socks? Which ones? I do have a personal agenda related to rigid orthodoxy of practice, in that I have found all too often that one-size-fits-all advice does not always fit and can even cause harm. Yoga is potent stuff. If something is almost always good for almost everyone, great, but it still may be bad for me or for you at some point and we may have to leave it off. I think simple self-awareness is probably one's best guide- if a practice leaves me in worse shape rather than better, that is a pretty clear sign. I have learned great suspicion of any advice from the "purer-is-better" school of yoga, because once in that mindset impurities abound and there is no peace to be found anywhere. I also, perversely, think that some practices only seem to yield fruit if practiced in an extraordinarily faithful and almost militant way, although which practices fall into this category I suspect vary from individual to individual! Angie Reed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 26, 1999 Report Share Posted October 26, 1999 What does it mean to be a yogi? Please let me > know. Jeanette A yogi is committed to a practice of yoga with the goal of experiencing a union with the divine in the human experience. Sat Nam, Rattana > > > _________________ > Get the Internet just the way you want it. > Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! > Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. > > > "OUR DESTINY IS TO BE HAPPY" > - Yogi Bhajan > > Check out our website: > kundalini yoga > > Sponsored by Yoga Technology Press > Popular publishers of books on Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. > > > To from this list, go to > ONElist Member Center, or send mail to > Kundaliniyoga- > No requests to the list please! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 27, 1999 Report Share Posted October 27, 1999 Dear Angie, I think it is interesting how you seem to have answered your own questions. As we practice we are guided to move on to the next step. It is all very personal and very potent how our souls guide us to our own empowerment and evenual liberation. Sat Nam, RAttana > I have noticed over time in my own life that what is a good yoga practice for > me at one point has become bad for me later on. I have seen my practice > change quite often and even drastically as a result of this. I presume these > shifts in what was helpful to me occurred primarily because my needs changed > (or maybe because my environment changed). > > I am curious if anyone else would care to share how their practice of yoga > has changed over time. Have there been yoga practices that were helpful to > you at one point that became clearly not helpful on down the road? Which > ones? Have you tried practices and found them not to be helpful and then > months or years later eased into them like putting on a warm pair of socks? > Which ones? > > I do have a personal agenda related to rigid orthodoxy of practice, in that I > have found all too often that one-size-fits-all advice does not always fit > and can even cause harm. Yoga is potent stuff. If something is almost always > good for almost everyone, great, but it still may be bad for me or for you at > some point and we may have to leave it off. > > I think simple self-awareness is probably one's best guide- if a practice > leaves me in worse shape rather than better, that is a pretty clear sign. I > have learned great suspicion of any advice from the "purer-is-better" school > of yoga, because once in that mindset impurities abound and there is no peace > to be found anywhere. > > I also, perversely, think that some practices only seem to yield fruit if > practiced in an extraordinarily faithful and almost militant way, although > which practices fall into this category I suspect vary from individual to > individual! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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