All the Yoga out there & the symbolism of AUM
What comes up in classes? Rebecca Ellis What comes up in classes? Rebecca Ellis

All the Yoga out there & the symbolism of AUM

After a few years of falling deeply in love with everything I thought Yoga was about, I began – as lots of us do – to become overwhelmed by all the different kinds of Yoga I was bumping into. What should I be practicing and how often? Are the physically strenuous practices such as Ashtanga as ‘Yogic’ as sitting for hours in deep meditation, for example? Does the fact that social media throws up images of Goat Yoga, Tequila Yoga and many more kinds of yoga and counting, somehow threaten the authenticity of Yoga’s origins?

What is Yoga really all about? And if whatever kind of Yoga we’re drawn to makes us feel great, does it matter to ask this question anyway?

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