Yoga is not for the Flexible, it is for the Willing
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Before I started a regular yoga practice (rather, before I even set foot in my first yoga class) I thought "I can't do yoga, I'm not flexible," "I can't do yoga, I'm not thin enough," "I can't do yoga, I'm not an acrobat" and "I can't do yoga, I'm not strong enough." Everything I perceived to be yoga, I firmly declared I was not. Yoga magazines only entrenched my alienation: they depicted lithe, young women hovering upside down, one hand on the ground, smiling with ease. That was (and still is), definitively, not me.
Yoga is not for the Flexible, it is for the Willing
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Yoga is not for the Flexible, it is for the Willing
Before I started a regular yoga practice (rather, before I even set foot in my first yoga class) I thought "I can't do yoga, I'm not flexible," "I can't do yoga, I'm not thin enough," "I can't do yoga, I'm not an acrobat" and "I can't do yoga, I'm not strong enough." Everything I perceived to be yoga, I firmly declared I was not. Yoga magazines only entrenched my alienation: they depicted lithe, young women hovering upside down, one hand on the ground, smiling with ease. That was (and still is), definitively, not me.