キノ・マクレガ―のインスタグラム(kinoyoga) - 1月30日 05時39分

I’m sleepy. And sore. And a bit irritable. It’s 2 am and I feel like I interrupted my sleep by getting up. I’m about to get in the shower and be over to practice just after 3 am. I will never get used to waking up in the middle of night to practice yoga. I could never do this at home. Sometimes just getting on the mat at the lazy hour of 10 am is a struggle at home. But here in India practice is not just poses, but sadhana. This is my time to be fully immersed in the method of Ashtanga Yoga, I including the element of tapas, discipline.
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My teacher always says that there should always be some element of difficulty in every practice. And I agree. Especially when all you have to do is practice and your sole effort is to get on the mat. Give everything. When life is challenging, sometimes it’s enough Tapas to unroll the mat for five minutes and just sit there amidst the chaos and pain. When life is easy, adding an element of challenge to practice can be healthy and good.
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Challenge is not the same the as suffering through pain or injury. Challenge helps you build strength, rise up your perceived limitations and literally stretch your mind. Challenge expands your consciousness and helps you grow at the edges of discomfort. Sometimes I feel like we are afraid of truly challenging ourselves, like we want everything spoon fed to us in neat little packages that make total sense. But in my experience, neither life nor practice is like that. It doesn’t always make sense, and yet, because of that, because of the non-sensual nature of craziness things like getting up in the middle of night, there is wisdom in it.
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My advice to you today—challenge yourself in some way!
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Day 29 of #30dayyogajourney Today is Padmasana with @anamargret on @omstarsofficial Watch today’s practice for a yin breakdown of opening your hips. Even if you’ve fallen off the challenge, you can still join or jump back in!! It’s not over yet ?
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