Here is a response to "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body", the New York Times article that has yogis across the globe hot under the collar. Leslie Kaminoff is a yoga anatomy teacher in New York.
If you took the time to read the article, take the time to watch his video to get a different perspective. I generally agree with what he says. However, this is such a rich topic that no post or video can do it justice. Just remember that your body's intuition always trumps an enthusiastic (and even well-informed) yoga teacher. Always. And the point of yoga is never about the postures. Ever.
It is such a strange phenomenon that modern yoga practitioners think they can tell yoga what yoga is, instead of realizing that yoga tells US what yoga is. Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of consciousness in order to unite with our infinite life force. The point is always to steady the mind and connect to the infinite life force. That is how yoga defines itself. If we want yoga to be something else, that's our issue, not yoga's issue.
I am pretty sure no one reads the Yoga Sutras I have posted to the left over there, but they are the defining text of yoga and a pretty comprehensive life manual. Read them sometimes.
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