23/10/2020
Yes, yes, YES! 1000 times yes and a huge shoutout to - how beautiful is this? Your yoga does not have to look a certain way, YOU do not have to look a certain way, your BODY does not have to look a certain way, your CLOTHES do not have to look a certain way, the SPACE YOU PRACTICE IN does not have to look a certain way - I could go on, but I'm feeling like you get the picture by now - for it to be YOGA.
YOUR PRACTICE IS YOURS, AND IT'S FOR YOU, NOT FOR ANYONE ELSE!
Screw the haters and the gatekeepers who think that they get to judge what is and isn't right. And screw your own inner mean girl if she's trying to tell you that something about your practice isn't good enough. Kindly tell both external and internal critics that you won't be giving them any more airtime, and then you do you. Practice in whatever way works for you.
Props, no props, yoga tights or pyjamas (my personal favourite yoga outfit, as I might have mentioned a time or two before 😂), or, to hell with it, do it NAKED if you want! Do it for 5 minutes, or for an hour. Do it at sunrise, or at 2.17pm. With music or without. Do poses with fancy names if they float your boat, or roll around on the floor and breathe (another specialty of mine 😜), or spend 10 minutes in child pose. Chant. Meditate. Dance. Be still. It's up to you.
Let go of the doubts and the fears. Just get on your mat (or not, if you don't want to use one) and practice. Not for anyone else.
For you.