These past few months in teacher training, I haven't really had to explain to my friends what it is exactly I am learning. We had this discussion at teacher training today about yoga being more than just the asana practice, even though that is what you get when you go to most yoga classes. Most people come to yoga class for the fitness aspect... and that is not necessarily bad. In the end, it doesn't really matter how they start their journey with yoga, but just that they start it.
I was talking to a friend about yoga and how there is much more to it than just the poses. When she asked interestingly about a particular yoga instructor, my heart sank because really she was just interested about a person, not about yoga. Perhaps that is how she'll start her journey.
At teacher training, we also talked about managing the gunas: tamas, rajas, and sattva. We fluctuate between the extremes tamas (lethargic/inactivity) and rajas (firey/hyperactivity). The goal is to guage where the class is generally and move towards center or sattva (equilibrium/discretion).
namaste.
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