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You are invited to share your experiences about your yoga practice. What brought you to yoga and why do you stay with it? What has changed for you since you have begun practicing yoga? Do you feel a sense of community in a yoga class? Do you feel the mind-body connection more since your practice? What yoga-related books and articles do you read?

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Yoga or not

I have been doing less yoga and more swimming lately. From the swimming pool, I next go into the hot tub to soak away the aches and pains of the winter. I attended a somewhat vigorous yoga class this week, and I realized that I was not as flexible as I was a year or so ago. This led me to an internal contemplation of just what do I want from my yoga practice. Ok, so I might not be as flexible, but I still am able to enjoy the class. The key for me is to do what I can do, and not force my body into poses that are not comfortable. To swim or to do yoga? That is my question for today.
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  1. PramilaMarch 17, 2013 at 8:03 AM

    Great to hear your voice on this blog, Rich. I think each time we do yoga, we take a different thing from the practice. Sometimes, it is the comfort of doing a particular pose, sometimes, it is the meditative aspect, sometimes it is the restorative poses that seems to bring back a quiet into our chatty minds. So yoga and swimming can both be done--each probably helps the other; breath in yoga helps swimming, and the toning in swimming helps with the asanas.

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