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Patanjali's limbs of Yoga: Yamas - Satya
Yama: Satya
"Regardless of what stage of life we're in, Yoga practice should serve to bring forth our unique skills, strengths, and talents. It should help us live with greater ease and acceptance. If we mold our practice into some idealized form based on an external standard that is irrelevant to our own destiny, our Yoga practice will only fortify a false sense of self. In this light, always consider your practice in terms of how it can balance and serve the rest of you life. The practice should serve you: you are not a servant to the practice."
Donna Farhi
Bringing
Yoga to life: the everyday practice of Enlightened living.
This
week we have been focusing on the Yama or restraint 'satya'. Satya can
be translated as honesty or truthfulness and for me being honest helps
to cultivate self acceptance both on and off the mat. In terms of my
formal yoga practice on the mat it is about asking myself if I can be
happy where I am and not try to change myself or others perception of
myself. This boils down to asking myself if I honesty need to attempt a
more complex or advanced pose. Can I be content and truthful in my
practice? After all, I have found trying to go places I am not ready to
go just leaves me feeling physically tired, maybe sore and
emotionally/mentally dissatisfied if i am not successful. Working
towards a pose is just as beneficial to getting there... as they say it
is in the journey not the destination.
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