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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 9h \ on: Understanding Yoga And How Everyone's A Yogi HealthAndFitness
The first year of SN, I was doing an hour of vinyasa four, sometimes five, days per week. I came to yoga having been very keen on body mechanics and I found yoga systematically wise about the body. I viewed yoga kind of like a maintenance or warmup routine for the body - preserving range of motion, activation of the rarely used muscles in modern life, moving lymph fluids, breaking up fascia, etc.
I never tried to connect with the explicit spiritual side of yoga, so I never did, but I did find it incredibly calming and mind clearing. The fog of my anxiety was generally thinner.
I got a third of the way through Autobiography of a Yogi on some plane rides recently. I still haven't really found the spiritual side of yoga beyond the benefits I experienced while practicing it. I'm curious what's there though and if it might help me get more from the physical practice to understand the spiritual intent. At the very least, I suspect the spiritual side of yoga helps the physical teachings endure as a single corpus by giving them more purpose than yet another collection of exercises.
To answer you very precisely, start thinking Yoga as the Art of Living.
I never tried to connect with the explicit spiritual side of yoga.
Because you never tried, doesn't mean you won't connect or won't find 'the Yuj', which is simply a harmonious connection of your body with the mind. I'm sure you must've felt it by practicing yoga.
For what you're referring by spirituality may be something like the summit of it. I may better answer you if I can understand your view of spirituality.
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