What do you visualize when you read the word yoga? Maybe some fit-looking person in some impossible looking flexi pose? But, that is not the true heart of yoga. The beauty of yoga is that through asana one can bring awareness into a particular position, so “when in cobra pose, one becomes like a cobra.” Asana focuses the mind and prepares the body for meditation, bringing attention back to the Self and facilitating the process of connecting back into universal Consciousness. So, as you can see, there really is so much more to yoga as a system. 

I don’t want a future filled with resentment and war for myself or my children. And so, I know that I must follow the path of peace, starting first to understand the perspective of those with whom I deeply disagree and then trying to find common ground to build on from there. Perhaps the most difficult part of this process is reflecting on the shadows of my own perspective.