"Yoga is not about touching your toes, it is about what you learn on the way down." - Jigar Gor

I see so many people stop themselves from trying yoga and seeing what yoga is for themselves. People say they are too old, too stiff, too sweaty, too inflexible, too out-of-shape, too out-of-time...

There is actually nothing about our body that stops us, what stops us is our minds.

Yoga is no harder than other forms of exercise and yoga invites you exactly as you are. However, yoga can build your strength, endurance, flexibility, balance, and it will heal, focus, clarify, calm you. Beautiful, flexible women as a symbol of yoga, which may first have been meant to be an inspiration, has turned into another instrument that we use for our self-beating and judgment. When you practice yoga, you will realize that yoga is not made to remind you of some mold that you do not fit in.

If you will only give it a try, you will find that yoga guides you to focus only on yourself, on the parts of you that are and forever will be delightful. Focusing on ourselves is a scary proposition for most of us because we know, we feel how we run away from all the things we are not happy with about ourselves.

Yoga teaches me to overcome fear. I am reminded that I am here and I am alive. I am awake. I am able. Able to do as much as I can and that is what I can do. To ask for more is nonsense. To do less is not myself. It is so easy to spew out yoga-meditative-spiritual sounding things that make no sense so I laugh a little myself too. Maybe the point of all these saying is to make you laugh... You laugh, then you hear stop running. And you take one moment, out of curiosity, laziness, desperation, lack of will to run further, to stop. To stand still. To take a breath. That's all yoga asks you to do. Then you have touched your toes.