“Now the practice of yoga begins.”
So goes the first Yoga Sutra of Patanjali.
Yoga is often erroneously taken to be about body flexibility. “I can’t bend like that!”
Actually yoga is more about body/mind/heart adaptability!
I will do this asana or pose to the best of my ability in this moment with this body/mind/heart as it is now–doing the poses as you can with all the conditions of now as they are.
Herein lies the real flexibility of yoga, to adapt to the now as it is and make the most of it, to find strength and ease in conditions no matter how they are.
Now is the time for a special kind of flexibility–adaptability to the now we may have never thought we’d face.
Yoga and meditation can help us embrace our Gumby-like nature, and bend with the times, adapting to the changes and, in many ways, reinvent how we live.
This is yoga!
Now, the practice of yoga begins!
The Every Day Yogi 