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I'm very grateful there has been a lot of resonance in Ashtanga Magazine about the current state of yoga practice in the 21st century. Yoga is a very personal enquire. It's not a competition nor a performance. Is not the display of physical aptitudes nor the cult to the body. It's not a fitness regime for sure, even though the practice takes care of the human body like no other physical discipline. Yet, thousands of practitioners are daily distracted by the now so called Yoga Porn in social media. I have no judgment about practicing in skimpy clothing and I have many times in the past since our practice is hot and sweaty. I used to live in the tropics and south India is warm and humid all year long. I understand the term "porn" more in the sense of exposing such a subtle spiritual Sadhana without discrimination for business purposes. The Parampara itself is asking us to take a moment of reflection and place more attention to the ethical, the relationship, the silence and the self enquiry instead of the glamorous, the distracting and the superficial. The problem with celebrities is there is no real connection to them- no matter how many million likes they are given (many of them bought by the same industry). Fake news and stardom are not real and yoga is the awakening to truth and reality. Yoga is relationship, first of all relationship to ourselves and the choices we make: do they take us closer to who we are or do they strand us from our core being into someone else's perception of the practice? Yoga is an experience and a very personal and intimate one. Spiritual materialism is one of the loops into which the Samsara Hala Hala may take us. Every teacher and practitioner has the full right to display themselves as they wish since we live in a free world- but is up to use to use our discernment to understand everything that is shiny is not necessarily gold.... Read more in today’s entry in my blog. Check the link in my bio.#yoga #shanticostarica #soulleadership #yogaporn https://www.instagram.com/p/Btf6fd-FYoi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=a130vmj5k8iu

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