July 4, 2014
The yoga challenge finished long ago. It hadn’t seemed like
a good time to write my thoughts on yoga until today - the day I left the
ashram. It feels strange to leave a place that has become my home
(where I feel most like myself).
Anyway, doing yoga asanas every day for thirty straight days
wasn’t as challenging as I thought. It wasn’t a breeze either but after a while
the body adjusts and even begins asking for it. I felt more flexible, stronger
and generally more energetic and healthier so I’ll definitely be keeping up
with it, just not on a mandatory basis. It felt good to follow through with
something that I had been resistant to for so long. It also helped break some
of my notions regarding benefits to the physical body. However the one thing
that didn’t change is my feeling that doing asanas has something do to with
yoga. It doesn’t. At least not for me.
So Swamiji and I chill out often while I’m at the ashram and one typical morning while having chai together I asked him what yoga is . He gave me an answer that I think will take me more than a little while to really know but one that is satisfying beyond my limited thoughts. 
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