The Tradition of Yoga

What is yoga?

Further down I share this quote by Erich Schiffmann about Yoga.

What yoga means to each person can vary. What you take home with you, the feeling, becomes the  reference point, that feeling  becomes more accessible the more you deepen your connection to the practice; this is the gold, the alchemy. Then the practice travels off the mat into our lives, to help us navigate our connection to each moment with awareness, feeling and compassion. To bring us to a point of engaged, present, calm and integral inner alignment to create this deep powerful sensual relationship with self that spirals out into the relationship with the other; to come into relationship with friends, lovers, animals, nature, earth, food, water and so on… the matrix of the heart pulsating outwards/expanding into the awareness of the inner experience connected to the outward manifestation. And keep in mind the word teacher can be used to describe your own inner reference, body wisdom.

‘The real “tradition” of Yoga involves being guided from within and trusting ones own inner reference system. This makes ultimate sense once you realise that you only exist because The All being itself as you, and that therefore when you trust into your deepest impulses about how to do or be, you are actually trusting into the wisdom of That which created you. This is the essence of what Yoga has always been about, one’s so-called re-integration with The All, with The One, which is being The Many. The purpose of a human teacher or teaching is to help the learner arrive at that point of sensitivity and self-trust, which will feel like empowerment. ‘

Erich Schiffmann

On Donna Farhi’s FB page!