Yoga People Are Smart People
I should preamble here. In an esoteric sense, one answer to "what is Yoga?" could be "Yoga is everything you do". The uninitiated, and indeed many yoga practitioners of some skill, interpret yoga as an exercise form. While physical conditioning is part of it, and sometimes all of it in the Western world, what I'm learning about yoga tells me it's a bit more. The physical conditioning is a tool for connection with the self, the mind, the world around us, and the divine/spiritual/occult/super-entity of your preference.
Yoga is about being where you are, and reaching out from that point. The use of physical movement and posture, sometimes difficult and uncomfortable ones, is about exploring the physical placement of where you are in order to advance.
I know, it doesn't make sense.
Yoga Conference Day 1 was spent in a workshop titled Anatomy and Asana, led by a very well-educated kinesiologist and published author on the topic of anatomy as related to Yoga practice. This was a very technical workshop which nonetheless included some excellent aspects of the "physical" yoga leading to the "spiritual" yoga.
It also tuned my upper back up something amazing. I've had issues all across the thoracic spine level lately, extending even down to my fingertips. This workshop gave me a great yogic look at the exact same stuff my physiotherapist had worked me through on it and I think I learned a few more tricks for dealing with this hotspot.
Even the same knowledge from a different perspective can lead to alot of new knowledge.
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