10/26/2026
My perception of health is ever-changing. I’m always learning new ways of looking at things and discovering practices that align with my lifestyle and what I need most in the present moment.
The same goes for yoga. My perception of yoga has shifted so much over the years. From seeing it as primarily a physical practice, to focusing on stillness and quieting the mind, to understanding it as a state of consciousness.
And it’s okay to shift your beliefs. They’re beliefs, after all. They aren’t necessarily truths, and we’re allowed to grow beyond the ways we once understood things.
Yoga has become much more of a state of being for me. A practice of presence, awareness, and learning to meet life as it unfolds.
It’s in the way I choose to move through the world, the way I respond to life, and the way I learn to return to myself. It’s less about something I do and more about how I choose to be.
This isn’t to say that yoga doesn’t change us, but that it brings us home to ourselves.
I don’t need to be on my mat to practice yoga, and that’s what makes it such a beautiful practice. ♥️
P.S I do sometimes use yoga as an escape from reality, & that’s okay too! 🤷🏼♀️
A quote I recently read that felt fitting, “Don’t meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing enough.” - Bob Sharples
