The Yoga is in the Stillness

In a world where we are bombarded by images on social media of what yoga seemingly represents. Unattainable 'poses' often dangerously executed and 'performed' just for the camera. Gymnastics with a more fashionable and approved label.

I am posting this beautiful poem sent to me by my yoga teacher to remind us what Yoga actually is

He who is led by wisdom rather than ego.

How hard we try

to capture-

the pose, the breath,

the grind.

Yet the deepest shifts

remain undefined.

For Yoga is not

in what we display,

But in what dissolves

and fades away.

In silence,

in stillness,

in depths unknown,

For what Yoga truly

undoes cannot be shown.