YOGA IS BREATH AND BREATH IS LIFE

Can we please remove all the labels, strip away the noise & be rid of the marketing speak......yoga is breath & breath is life, what more do we need?
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Do you wish to live fully? If the answer is yes then understand that breathing fully is to live fully. Understand that yoga is about creating space within you & outside of you to exist in peace. Yoga is sthira & sukha; steadiness & ease. Yoga is being alert without tension, flexible without being unstable, strong without being rigid, open without being naive & sceptical without being cynical. Yoga is knowing that change is an essential component of life & that without it we are stuck.
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The marketeers will have you believe that yoga will give you special powers of enlightenment which are enhanced if you have an expensive yoga mat & a cute top with a spiritual slogan on it. Beer yoga, goat yoga, yoga for this & yoga for that & then yesterday I heard of orgasmic meditation - it’s all just a label, all thought up from a deep sense of fear that if we don’t give yoga a fun or exciting sounding name then people won’t come. I know, I’ve been there, I probably am still there. I’ve spent hours, scratching my head, trying to find a name for a yoga class, a retreat and of course a brand because just the word yoga doesn’t seem enough. But if I’m to do the inner work & reflect on that, perhaps the shadow that lurks behind is the fear that I don’t feel I am enough. Somehow the words make what I do bigger, better, shinier & glossier; the words somehow encapsulating the hours spent in study & practice.
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But I’m done with it. I’m done with labels, I’m done with marketing speak, I’m done with hiding behind words.
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I’m also very aware of the irony that I have a brand name & right now the internal struggle of this is very real. What am I hiding behind? The work is ongoing on this one - right now I’m just going to allow myself to sit in confusion a little bit longer & hope that all will be clear soon!
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