I’ve been peeping my head out just to see if the world is sorta, kinda prepared for me, then retreating again... the truth is that I haven’t been ready.
The conflation of ego with innate qualities got me heated, and my thirst for answers was quenched by holistic, metaphysical study and somatic therapies.
For my first eight years of Yoga, it was just one painful game of let’s see how quickly these 60 minutes pass and how much of it I can avoid spending in my body, in feeling. I was not open to the possibility that Yoga was anything but physical.
I believe the yogin, just like the martial artist, is another embodiment of the warrior archetype. It takes the endurance of the warrior to confront what arises in the stillness of the present moment.