Since I've been teaching yoga, I've had a lot of opportunities to impart "wisdom" on my yogi friends. Here are some things that I've suggested that I really need to incorporate into my life for more than the hour a day that I'm teaching....
Don't take yourself too seriously. We all fall down sometimes. Just get back up.
"Take into account that great love and great achievement involve great risk." (Dalai Lama)
Don't compete. Start where YOU are. Do what YOU can.
"Follow your bliss and the Universe will open doors where there were only walls." (Joseph Campbell)
"Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured." (BKS Iyengar)
Be present. For the next [insert class length here], your sole purpose is to be here, doing this. Nothing else.
"Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self." (The Bhagavad Gita)
If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you.
I need to learn to shut off my every day-brain and listen to my yoga teacher-brain.
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