Tell me about your practice? What is the worst bit? I'll confess.. For me it is taking the decision to start, to actually clear the floor and unroll my mat.
For there is always something else I need to do, like write a blog, or make a cup of coffee, or look out of the window... You know this feeling?
But this year, thus far in 2010, I have been good and I am practicing, usually 4 times a week. It is a lonely and thankless task to drive myself to the mat each morning, and the rewards, though there are obscured from me. For after a long period of practice, maybe 5 years, progress is subtle and slow, and the rewards of practice are almost obscured by the relative familiarity of my body to me.
For as I practice yoga, the depth of experience, married with a relative flexibility, becomes the norm, and thus it becomes taken for granted, for to engage with the wish to go further, stretch deeper, practice at a higher level, is not contained within my understanding of yoga practice.
But this I do question - what might I feel like, what might my body be had I never taken up the practice of asana? Would I feel entrapped, might I be stiffened and locked? Well, I will never be able to answer that specific question, as all I know is what I am now. But I do think that I have the benefits of a healthy body and system, that is in part due to my daily practices, keeping my inner organs stimulated, and my muscular system activated... It feels good most of the time.
But honestly? What I really dread? A's and B's...
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