My belief is: If one is really truly committed to yoga sadhana then you don't need any thing else other than walking, dancing, tai chi, jogging, swimming......
Hatha yoga (and yes it is ALL Hatha yoga with different methods of practice) is designed for all physical needs. Just practice according to YOUR physical needs. Ask your self why you are doing yoga. Do you want just a beautiful body? If this is your desire then do what you need to do. This is not Yoga...
Yoga is authentically for enabling us to be healthy while we are here during this life, to age gracefully, time to burn up as much karma as possible before moving on! It is also designed to help us sit with a straight spine for lengthy meditation so that we may learn to give up the body and discover who we truly are therefore making our passing from this life to the next much easier and hopefully with awareness.
Let's try to honor the gift we have been given by respecting it's authenticity. I have been living yoga for 40 yrs and have no intention of ever disrespecting it's source and thousands of yrs of wisdom passed to us. After all it is based on Truth. Yoga is a science of self discovery. Fitness is fitness. I'm not against fitness :)
That's the end of my speech for today! LOL!
Hari Aum
Brenda
www.brendabell.ca
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