Why Yoga? A personal question

Hi,

D here. I just watched the below video. The teacher is Lino Miele. He’s an Italian Ashtanga teacher. Do have a look, especially if you’re new to yoga or have perhaps only had one or two teachers so far. Why? Because I think it well represents how an established yoga teacher-student-culture can be, and often is.

If you’re new to yoga and you live in Launceston you are missing out on tapping instantly into the wider culture. It’s not a crucial part of learning yoga. But it can be inspirational and generous. It takes time to build practice as a student and even though it is an individual practice, not a team sport as such, it certainly has a bigger and wider cohabitation of peoples and this is one of the elements of the form that I love and miss, as a student in a small town. As a teacher, however, I love the groups I teach and I’m entirely positive that I gain more than the students, because unlike the students, the newer students, I have the group to relate to … this I love, this is why I teach; the shared experience speaks volumes of unpronounceable truths to me.

Why Yoga? The answer to this question is deeply personal and difficult to articulate. I’m a student of yoga because the more I learn, the less I know. When I’m struggling in a posture I never doubt the importance of the struggle and the message that I’ll eventually learn from it. Yoga makes me shine from the inside and my skins shines too. Yoga is as peaceful as it is demanding. I never know where it’s going to take me but in retrospect I always love where I’ve been with it. I believe it to be a primary key to maintaining and building mine and my family’s whole wellbeing.
When I watch people doing yoga I get all excited; I really do. I’ll never give it up, even though I have no idea what it will be, even though I barely understand what it is.
Yoga is practice, not theory; this I know to be very true to me. Yoga is beautiful and it feels beyond beauty.