Most of you that know me, know that I am less likely to talk about myself, about my problems, about the joys, about the pains, about the pitfalls, about the bliss. It is not to say I deny these things, and it is not to say I sugarcoat everything; I simply want to keep myself out of the way of the teachings, of the yoga, while in the Mysore Room. This is your experience.
I present myself as conduit for the learning of this practice...a practice that is not sugarcoated. Students don't need their teachers spoon feeding them with feel good select postures and affirmations - it just is not real world teachings. A bona fide 'practice' is one that makes us FEEL everything. We come face to face with the real world every day. Sure, wouldn't it be divine to slip away on your yoga mat for an hour or more each day into a syrupy slather of constant positivity swirled in by the voice of a yoga teacher, without even having to try? Well, the reality: the real life feel good can only truly come from inside of us, through actual working hard enough to make an actual dent in the armor we have layered on.
Your practice doesn't have to kill you, granted, but it should be something more in line with pulling yourself up by the bootstraps worthy, rather than everything spooned in (your happy thoughts, your stroked empowerment, your forced sweat, your lifted heart). D.I.Y - Do It Yourself...it is guaranteed to be much more satisfying in the not-to-long run.
Initially it may not be the obvious wow-that-was-just-what-i-needed type of yoga session. But, I have come to a point where just about every practice makes me want to exclaim, 'that's the best thing since sliced bread!'...and I, like many others, do exclaim. Many yoga classes will offer the 'easy obvious feel good sound good' sensations that feed our ego more than our truth. And that is a difficult notion to buy into, or buy out of actually.
Big picture practice.
