Topic 6.08.22 Endurance and Improvement
Topic 6.08.22 Endurance and Improvement. VERSION CONTROL: 1 August 2017
Failure is the line of least persistence. There’s no failure in Yoga. Never give up.
Yoga is not a ‘been there, done that’ type activity. There will never arise a time in which a true practitioner can state, “Now I have learned, now I am finished!” It’s always about beginning again. Yoga’s life-involvement develops many valuable character traits, especially perseverance and persistence. Although you begin again, and again, it’s never from the same place.
Performing your Yoga asanas is not just to show how clever you can be, nor how supple your body is. It is to place the human frame in a particular position, so that it gains specific benefits, by diverting and focusing energy and breath. Every twist, bend, turn and stretch is done with a purpose. Benefits are not reaped in just a brief holding of the pose. It is regularity together with the length of time that a pose is held with Yoga breathing that allows the body to become conditioned, and benefits to build up. (Please refer again to 14: Being There – Hold Each Position)
Hold for as long as you can with correctness. A little way held comfortably for a reasonable period, is preferable to an attempted full pose held briefly under strain. As you increase your poses, so too lengthen the time in the posture.
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