Everyone knows that finding balance in life is important to happiness and overall emotional well-being. Yoga is a vast collection of spiritual techniques and practices aimed at integrating mind, body and spirit to achieve a state of enlightenment or oneness with the universe.
Cultivating Balance
The Mind-Body Connection
Health isn’t merely the absence of disease or symptoms; it is a state of optimal wellbeing, vitality, and wholeness. We are healthy when we’re able to fully digest everything we take in, extracting what is nourishing and eliminating whatever doesn’t serve us. This includes our food, our relationships, our jobs, and all our life experiences. Illness, in contrast, develops when there is a disruption ― a blockage in the flow of energy and information in our body & mind. Symptoms and sickness are the body’s signal that we need to restore balance, eliminate whatever is causing the blockages, and reestablish the healthy flow of intelligence.
Beginning a Yoga Practice
Everyone begins their Yoga practice for a different reason. Some new yogis are attracted to the poses to become more flexible, others are searching for something more spiritual to help them center their lives. Whatever brings you to yoga is the right and perfect reason. Follow your desire and listen to your body and your heart and you will be just where you need to be.
