It's Hard to Explain All of the Benefits that Arise from a Regular Yoga Practice...

It’s hard to explain all of the benefits that arise from a regular yoga practice. It’s not just about getting stronger or more flexible. It’s about remembering how to be fully present in your body, fully EMBODYING yourself.

In our modern culture, there is a huge disconnect for most of us between body and mind. Most of us are just a huge brain dragging a body along behind us. When we discover how to fully EMBODY ourselves again, everything about our life experience shifts.

We become more aware of our thoughts and feelings and instead of those unconscious processes controlling our experiences, we are able to create a little distance, to see things more clearly and objectively, and ultimately learn how to respond in ways that are more healthy, honest, and helpful.

As we recognize that our thoughts and feelings don’t need to control our lives, we begin to sense that there is some deeper underlying essence to us that is not our thoughts or our feelings or our bodies.

And this can be the beginning of a deeply personal spiritual experience that completely changes our lives.

We don’t change our lifestyle and our attitudes because we are told to or because we think we have to, but instead the process happens naturally, organically, and gradually because we are pushed forward by something deep and real.

And we are encouraged by how much happier and more alive we feel.

You may enter your first yoga class hoping to stretch your hamstrings, and you may end up on a deeply spiritual journey that COMPLETELY CHANGES YOUR LIFE instead.

(But don’t worry. We will still stretch our hamstrings!)