#Repost per credit from & courtesy of @alexandriacrowyoga ... CONVERSATION STARTER: Have you ever suffered from āsana practice guilt? You know, that nagging feeling you get when you aren’t practicing āsana in the way you teach or were taught. A regular and worthwhile yoga practice doesn’t need to include a mat—and it definitely doesn’t need to involve sweaty vinyasa flows. So why isn’t the #yogaeverydamnday hashtag full of images of people using a variety of techniques or graphics explaining that there are a wide variety of approaches one can use to fit changing needs? And no, I don’t mean making yoga into anything you want via appropriation, but instead using more than just āsana. The yoga industry is mixed up with #nodaysoff fitness culture, which tells us we lack discipline if we dare to take a day to rest our bodies. That emphasis on proving something only perpetuates the binaries and self-judgment that yoga is meant to lead us away from. I used to believe I needed to practice āsana every day to teach well. When injuries ended my ability to prove my worth with fancy poses, I was forced to rethink things. I learned that I could achieve the aims of complex poses—and make them accessible to others—by focusing on the function of the poses over their form. And along the way, I found that I could have a very deep and personally beneficial practice even if all I did for a week was lie in Constructive Rest or sit for meditation each morning. Sure, Patañjali never said practice was optional. But he definitely never said a yoga practice needed to involve chaturangas or side crows. The real practice is the hard and uncomfortable inner work. And sometimes that involves letting go of damaging cycles like the hyperfocus on perfection and physicality that can surround physical practice. What’s included in your vision of a good and steady practice—and what can you let go of? #yogaphysics #deconstructtoreconstruct #yogaforeveryone #accessibleyoga #yogaforallbodies #yogaforeveryone #functionalyoga #modernyoga #yogarevolution #yoga101 #yogateacher #yogapose #yogapractice #sidecrow #yogaeducation #yogastudent #yogaasana #asana #yogaathome https://www.instagram.com/p/COjjfX_jNNu/?igshid=3e8rhq3j1q7w