Every time someone asks me which style of yoga I teach, a big silence invades me for some seconds, until I answer: “just yoga, a little bit of everything”. Lately I have been reading and studying about the history of yoga, with more focus on the history of Asana, and recently very interested in a book called: “Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice”, from Mark Singleton. Here a piece of what I have been chewing in regards to postural yoga, or what nowadays we call yoga: “A more valid and helpful way of thinking beyond such unproductive positions might be to consider the term yoga as it refers to modern postural practice as a homonym, and not synonym, of the “yoga” associated with the philosophical system of Patañjali, or the “yoga” that forms an integral component of the Śaiva Tantras, or the “yoga” of the “Bhagavad Gita”. (...) It is, in short, a homonym, and it should therefore not be assumed that it refers to the same body of beliefs and practices as these other, homonymous terms (...) we are free to consider postural modern yoga on its own terms instead of in negative comparison to other traditions called “yoga”(...)”. ~ Mark Singleton . . Even in such a beautiful path we get attached to our ideas and beliefs of what is and what is not... I think it is a good enterprise to learn about how this philosophy and practice has changed throughout the time, and the historical reasons of why there are so many visions about it, some more prevailing than others. 📷👉🏽 @fotosbyboca some weeks ago when we were in Costa Rica! #practicekindnessandcompassion #practiceequanimity #svadhyaya #uttanasana https://www.instagram.com/p/BtlebODlH_t/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ntspcvtmn0jy
