I have always considered myself to be a very happy person — and that’s what I teach when I teach yoga. Isn’t enlightenment just ‘big happiness’?
But in the last couple of years, sometimes that happy person seemed very far away. There were even times when I felt incapable of being happy.
I have all the ‘happy tools’ — from my time as a monk in ashrams over 10 years and learning everything I could about yoga and mindfulness in the two decades that followed — but I often feel that I have no time to use these wonderful practices and ideas.
Similarly, I am aware that most humans in the 21st century are experiencing mental health issues.
