For the first time in seven months today, I practiced Ashtanga yoga, which quite frankly was the baseline for my yoga teacher training. It also is probably one of the most gratifying, challenging practices when it comes to yoga. At its core, it's pure. It doesn't change. There is no creativity. You can't make the class cutesy. You just have to teach it as it is. Sure, there's the express form of it that many health clubs teach, but it still is the same sequence — the same sequence of breaths. And very much like time, it doesn't change. It doesn't criticize. It is just there for you to take a part of. As people know, my yoga journey has been interrupted because I got caught up in a lot of the propaganda regarding many fitness brands hijacking the practice. I found myself questioning people going to yoga studios that I watched say some crazy shit about other students just trying to do their thing. I started to question what yoga was. I found myself not want...
