When you take up yoga
classes you will find the effects are immediate. Just one yoga class, even
when you are a pure beginner, has benefits. A yoga class starts off with a
short blessing from the yoga teacher, and then a teacher will guide you through
the different poses. It does not matter if you are good at yoga, or not, if you
are experienced or brand new, or if you are a first timer or a regular. Yoga is
a slow practice, and you, the practitioner, do what you can. Then, at the end
of a yoga class, there is generally a five or a ten minute meditation. You lie
on your back, on your mat, with your eyes closed, while your teacher guides you
gently through a meditation. You cannot help but feel relaxed. You cannot help
but feel good. And you cannot help but feel the benefits.
Yoga is not competitive
The one thing about yoga
lessons, and you will learn this early on, is that yoga is not competitive.
Just because one woman can stand on her head, does not mean that you have to as
well. It might have taken her fifteen years to learn how to do that. You will
see that many yoga instructors can’t do certain poses. Yoga is about doing a pose to your
ability, and slowly, with time, getting better at it. Each body is different,
which is another thing you are going to learn in yoga, and yours is the one you
have, the one you are blessed with, and the one you are keeping healthy. You
are doing things at your pace, not at anyone else’s.
Take up yoga if it is
the one thing you do this year. Yoga classes are good for the mind and
the body and they will be good for you.
