Yoga

Hi guys,

I’ll start this yoga space with a little story. Or maybe thought. Something that happend to me quite recently.

I got overdose of yoga.

You think, you can’t? Yes, you can.

We all live in our bubbles. I have my own little mom-bubble, where I deal with dipers, nursing, what to cook for lunch, which barefoot shoes to buy and where is a baby-friendly cafe. But I only feel comfortable in that one occasionally and with a very narrow circle of my closest girl friends. Well, actually, with two 🙂 Otherwise, I don’t deal with it much and we are still alive, for now. Well, I often run away from this one to the yoga one.

And that yoga bubble can squish you all over, chew you up, and then spit you out completely destroyed, if you let it. And I don’t mean doing down dog pose until you’re sick of it. I mean everything except exercise. THIS EXERCISE IS WONDERFUL. Nothing compares to that. And even though I felt the most burnt out from yoga, I rolled out the mat anyway and at the first sun salutation, everything was back to normal.

I mean all the things around it. And of course I know I brought it on myself. I listened to podcasts about yoga, read books about yoga, watched people doing yoga… And didn’t do much else. But simply, for example, those mass meditations for world peace, which the internet was suddenly full of. I think that’s a bit of a yoga bottom. And everyone is suddenly an expert on spiritual life and feels that they can give advice to others. Those opinions about how the western world is bad, corrupted and consumerism represents pure evil, so everyone should take an example from the east. Probably best to move to India. And everywhere was the mantra “Lokah samastah sukhino bavantu”. Like everywhere! “May all beings be happy and content”. And yes, of course it’s a beautiful and noble goal to take this seriously, but imagine someone you really hate. About whom you cannot find anything positive at all. It could be someone at work who really annoys you. And say that mantra and mean it. Tell it out loud. C’mon, close your eyes and do it. Do you understand what I mean? How many people who preach it can actually do it?!

Then suddenly it all started to seem like a terrible nonsense.

Not yoga as such! Not even that philosophy. Definitely not the eight limbs. But what some people make of it.

Another, already about the 85th yoga school, which has just the right sequence of asanas and chants the right mantras. And most importantly, it was found by some famous enlightened yogi who learned from another famous enlightened yogi who is long dead. And the one who is still alive just happened to make a lot of money out of it. But his main goal was to free those poor people and lead them to enlightenment, right? And you also have to have a guru and his photo displayed on a shelf right next to a statue of some weird Hindu god with lots of hands. And most importantly, telling everyone that you simply cannot live without these things. And we techers probably often feel that we know more than others and if we don’t tell them, they will never find the right path in life 😀

don’t get carried away

practice even if nothing makes sense

look inside yourself

and if something is too much, just turn it off.