CRALLA BLOG YOGA
Yoga is like sex. You can read about it, hear about it, and watch
other people do it, but until you experience it first hand, yourself,
you don't really get it. So what's the excitement all about? Why is yoga
showing up everywhere from auto ads to executive meetings? Why are
airlines presenting it to their passengers and why is it featured on
Oprah? Kids are doing it in schools; buff athletes are doing it, even
pregnant women and the wheelchair-bound. There must be something very
seductive about yoga!
If you do yoga, you know that it's
seductive. That delicious feeling of stretching from the inside out;
that soothing sensation like warm honey flowing through energized limbs;
and the "big payoff" at the end of a practice: floating away into the
infinite. You can't access this in pictures, and yoga isn't a spectator
sport. The real experience is only available to you if you actually do
yoga.
Yoga is not just about the beautiful bodies of diehard yogis
and yoginis, although fitness is definitely one of the major payoffs,
yoga is a path to that illusive center we are all seeking...it's a path
to inner peace. We're being drawn to yoga by the thousands because we
need it; we crave what yoga offers and deeply need the body-mind-spirit
connection we experience when we practice the 5000 year old art of yoga.
