What Is Yoga [il:lo Marta]

What is Yoga
Yoga is. Yoga is.
Often I forget where I began + yesterday upon an application to a studio I was walking down Memory Lane and discovered the video that brought me to the practice. Concerning? The title included ‘weight loss’; for my journey that’s close to heart + it seemed as tho I could finally sit [or stand] in a space and look to that version aka “The Beginner”. Yes, there’s always a beginner w/in my yogi: a new doorway to walk thru within the practice; this doorway was incredibly satisfying to walk away from: an old version of myself that was ‘cloudy’.. wasn’t truly in her body. Mostly, the practice of yoga is a continuation of knowing [really accepting] right where you are and today that means for me ‘continuing to return to the breath, understanding that about nothing is in my honest control, all I can do is breathe thru the doubts and go to the next page + continue flipping the pages”. There’s this desire in me [perhaps you too] to know everything or have a goal, work towards it but watch yourself tumble. To me, yoga did not show me ‘there are rules’; yoga shows me that it’s about constantly coming right back. There’s always doubt [at least from my journey thus far]! [Yoga] is just constant re-routing to a space that isn’t criticising every aspect of my movement or my own breath. So, tuning into that, can come from so many avenues, not just the word ‘breath’. Now, you’ll expand to feel that same ripple affect when you talk about your toes or when you start thinking about the subtleties in your facial muscles; all of those are apart of your journey that you will create. The most important bit of information that I hope anyone knows within their body is that ‘this almost never ends’. Wherever you are, it’s just yoga. I’ll elaborate:
However your journey is looking, however you’re feeling about your body / path/ components of your life / surroundings that you dove into..
There’s this little light that can be there regardless of any barrier; nothing can take it from you. To each person, there is hopefully that in any form; the form that I found this light thru was the asana practice on a foam mat; that is perhaps common or you find it when you’re in conversation with another yogi or on an excursion or day off for your mind.. Reading a book.. Hwoeber you find it. That is my relation to you; there is that [light] for everyone and yoga doesn’t have to be yours. Yours is incredibly special; if it is yoga, super rad. I love you.