The Yoga of Insight
| Have you ever felt stuck in your own thinking? Unable to see past assumptions? Out of touch with the yoga of insight and pretty convinced you have the answer, and yet a small voice might remind you that there are limitless perspectives? I suspect this is true for most of us. In many ways, yoga practice breaks us out of the trance of our own thinking and invites us into a deeper view; to see beyond our particular self-interest and rest into something we might call wisdom. Sounds kind of nice, right? “How” you might ask? |
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The answer is not very glamorous. As my root teacher Baba Hari Dass would often say, “Regular practice.” Most find this challenging, but is nonetheless essential. Perhaps regular practice could look like 10 conscious breaths every time you park your vehicle, daily morning meditation, a class you can consistently go to. Swapping 10 minutes of scrolling for 10 minutes of legs up the wall. Or a structured program could be helpful. What may seem like an insurmountable mountain of resistance may just be a fleeting and wispy cloud through the sky of the mind, vailing the sun on the other side. The sun is perennially there, though ingrained assumptions could be blocking its light. Yours In the Spirit & Service of Yoga, Derik E. |