· The promise of Yoga is that we can experience freedom and thriving while living in the world, but is that realistic in today’s world? · Can yoga really deliver on these lofty goals, given the pervasiveness of our: anger, division, anxiety, despair and fear? · If so, how and what are the tools that can lead us to yoga’s treasures? · Could it be that we're not practicing the one part of yoga that could actually provide freedom and thriving? · Practice does not necessarily make perfect… · Practice without philosophy is exercise · Practice without a deeper understanding of its methodology is less than effective · Practice without self-study leads to us repeating the patterns that are the roots of suffering. · Now, more than ever, yoga without self-study will necessarily lead us into again and again to cycle and recycle our difficulties. · Unfortunately, even those committed to yoga and meditation, subsumed in the normalization of these most basic destructive tendencies, are uninformed about how to practice self-inquiry. · Enter the yoga sutra (1:33). · Resolving anger, the withholding of compassion, the diminishment of yourself and others and learning to accept, rather than judge others are essential if one is to make the promises of yoga real and realizable. • Living with freedom and while thriving, even in this world, are possible when we reflect what we bring to it and how to expand our acceptance of self and others.
