The Essential Yogi Training: How to Build Your Own Practice, Live Like a Yogi and Find Happiness
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The Essential Yogi Training shows you how to build your own relationship to yoga--not mediated by anyone else, and directed by your needs alone. Yoga is not a one-size-fits-all practice, and all of us are unique individuals. Why should we do a practice that tries to cater to everyone?
While group classes are awesome for many reasons, particularly for building like-minded communities, the heart of our practice comes from within. Taking your practice into your own hands signifies that you’re ready to take responsibility for your own spiritual growth.
This book teaches how to build a daily yoga practice that takes us beyond the doldrums of life, elevates our mind and connects us to spirit. This sets the stage for a fundamental shift in our perception and way of life. It may take some time to get there, but every step of the way brings us closer to making the state of yoga our new normal.
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The Essential Yogi Training - Alanna Kaivalya
What is Yoga Practice?
What this ebook teaches you is how to build a sadhana. That word means conscious spiritual practice.
All parts of that definition are important, so let’s take a moment to break them down further:
Conscious — This is a commitment to staying aware and present throughout the experience. No going on autopilot or doing rote movement or activities where your mind slips into something else and you are not engaged.
Spiritual — Yoga practice is a spiritual practice. While it doesn’t have any inherent hold on what you call spirit
or how you relate to it, it does as for a recognition that *something* bigger is going on here. We’ll talk more about this throughout the ebook; this is just a primer to get your wheels turning on what it means for you to develop a spiritual connection.
Practice — This means every damn day. Think of every expert in any field...none of them dabbled in their area of expertise, they went for it full force and stuck to it, often for many years, before it bore fruit. Likewise, consider a garden. One cannot plant seeds, walk away, and return in the fall to hope for an abundant crop. We have to show up every day...not just to watch things bloom, but to pull the weeds, too!
All three of these elements must be present for our yoga practice to become a sadhana, something that takes us beyond the daily doldrums of life, elevates our mind and connects us to spirit. This kind of practice sets the stage for a fundamental shift in our perception and way of life. It may take some time to get there, but every step of the way brings us closer to making the state of yoga our new normal.
What is Yoga?
Yoga, the word, means not just the practice of yoga, but yoga itself: the psychospiritual state of complete integration. This state is not exclusive to meditating yogis on mountaintops or something that takes a million years to achieve. It is both our birthright, and our natural state.
When we see past our ego, our mind chatter, and our negative self talk, we connect with this intrinsic state. We have felt it in moments of bliss; perhaps in front of a piece of artwork, on a beautiful beach, or in the presence of a loved one. When our ego mind gets out of the way...even for a moment, our connection to yoga arises.
The benefit of developing a sadhana is that you create the condition for this connection to yoga to arise more often. You are not so much doing yoga practices, as you are practicing the yoga itself.
How Do I Practice Yoga?
Yoga practice must be personal because our individual experience of yoga is personal—it varies for each of us