So, I’ve been practicing now for almost 8 months. I started a couple of weeks into January ‘07, and here we are in September. And you know what? It’s not about getting the poses right. It’s not about having a great Down Dog. It’s about the practice. It’s about the work. It’s getting on your mat everyday, even if it’s just for a few minutes. Yoga, more than anything, is mind work, not physical body work. Don’t get me wrong, there is a lots of physical work in yoga, but that is not the goal of yoga, only the path. So everyday, it’s about doing the work.
Everybody has their own mental traps to avoid. I find mine to be the “perfection trap”. I like to get the poses ‘right’. I want (oh so badly) the perfect down dog, the perfect moutain pose, the perfect warrior 2. But these thoughts, these wants are just distractions from the real work. It’s not about the perfect pose, and honestly, I haven’t figured out exactly what it’s about yet. I know though that part of it is about having the still mind, the calm inner self. It’s about the sit at the start and end of practice. It’s about setting that intention for that day. It’s about the breathing. It’s about all of these things and more that I have yet to figure out.
Right now though, it’s about doing the work every day.
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