Many things and/or activities can spark creativity or give you a refreshed quiet space and even return you to your center. I cook to get to that creative centered uplifting space. My wife paints. We both garden…..
But yoga and meditation and several other traditional modes of transformative practice (i.e. Tai Chi and Qigong) are different.
They are systems of practice and discipline designed to ferment, support, and sustain personal transformation. They are in and of themselves agents of change that can, with regular practice, set up a synergy of positive change or transformation that literally and progressively shifts how you are in the world. They change how you live life and meet its challenges.
It is this uplifting process of transformation that feeds and thereby helps sustain a regular practice. The fruits of your labor fuel future efforts.
The Every Day Yogi 