Thoughts on Yoga

Please remember that we do yoga to help us acheive great things.  Each of us has an important purpose to fulfill in the web of life.  When we are on track with our purpose, we feel happy, healthy and fulfilled.  When we are off-track, we feel tired, discouraged and/or confused. 

Yoga gives abundant energy to your body and wards off illness.  Posture practice stimulates lymph flow.  Internal organs are massaged, releasing toxic buildup in the tissues.  Your internal organs are returned to their healthy position within your body.  Yoga breathing cleans out your lungs and detoxifies your blood.   Deep relaxation turns up the volume on your immune system all the way. 

The concentration you learn from yoga helps you to focus keenly on one thing at a time in your life.  Instead of being pulled in a hundred directions, you can be effective and get the important things done with a sense of ease.  You get more done with less effort all the time.  You are in touch with inner peace even in the midst of activity.

Yoga also gives you deep well-being and inner connection.  Learning to listen inwardly you begin to hear your soul-call.  That is your inner compass leading you on your highest path to joy and bliss.

Yoga brings order to the lives of those who practice it sincerely.  Old bad habits naturally fall away.  You simply prefer those things that are healthy for you.  You enjoy following a self-disciplined path of ethical conduct that protects you from any ill-will from others.  You naturally prefer peace to conflicts and arguments so you have more time and energy to enjoy all of your life. 

From breathing exercises, to postures, to deep relaxation and meditation--yoga techniques are valuable tools for self-discipline and self-discovery.  Anyone who is sincere can learn to practice yoga and reap its life-affirming power.