What We Lost When We Stopped Breathing

Yoga was never meant to be escapism.

It was never meant to be used as a dopamine hit or a means of avoidance. 

My understanding of yoga is that it was meant and intended to return us to the divine truth that lives inside of us – to yoke, to bring together, back home to our center, our breath, our sacred aliveness.

But now, I watch and witness students take consecutive classes, pushing past the edges of their body, skipping savasana, posting about the burn and I wonder…

Why isn’t one practice enough?

Why isn’t one deep breath, one embodied experience, one intentional session enough to shift something?

Because it’s not about depth anymore.

It’s about chasing a feeling. Or avoiding the obvious (life and all it’s challenges).

It’s about doing more, not being more.

Yoga is not meant to be an obsessive, over-used product of performance and postures. It was never intended to be that. 

It leads me to ask… What have we actually created here?