01/26/2023
Ashtanga is learned and practiced through devotion.
Yoga sutra 1.14 says âPractice becomes firmly grounded when well attended to for a long time, without break and in all earnestness.â
Mysore is the building dynamic or relationship of student and teacher.
In order for this practice to grow there needs to be commitment⌠on both sides. Your teacher will know your practice inside out, they will with time learn your personality, celebrate your strengths and challenge your perceived limits. Trust will begin to flourish as this relationship builds, your teacher will continue to show up to meet you right where you are, and through trust youâll be able to breakthrough more of these limitations (physical/mental/ breath).
There are many practitioners today that drop in to led classes, with many and any instructor. Maybe pop in to a mysore class occasionally, they may even follow every ashtangi on ig with hopes of floating, being as strong, will try every workshop to have or create a breakthrough⌠and still not understand why there exists a disconnect.
This missing link being a students devotion and discipline to the method, to the practice itself, and open to the bond that builds within this student-teacher relationship.
If you find yourself searching for a unique and special yoga experience, outside of social media and circus, we must be open to be seen by a teacher who inspires us, who we allow ourselves to be guided by, a teacher who we would like to build trust with daily. And most of all committing to the time needed for all of this to exist.
Social media is fun, itâs so inspiring to see so many fun shapes, different backgrounds and Rumi quotes.
But one might ask what qualities do we ourselves look for within a teacher? Or do we really care about having a teacher or an instructor? Is experience important? These practitioners who inspire do we want to know how did they learn and who is their teacher and what does that term mean to them? And What then qualifies them to teach me?
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