5 Ways To Counteract Back Pain

Modesty isn't something that can be taught, I don't think. In Patanjali's philosophy there is emphasis through doing Yoga on modesty. This can be applied to thought processes too, to have modesty is to learn compassion and to have compassion you can understand your environment; other people's problems and pains, other animals and the environment's needs.

Yoga isn't performative.

I say this because of a sudden shift in the delivery, if you like, of Yoga in Western practise. Yoga is based on an eastern 2500 year old philosophy and is a mode of exercise that has become useful to our vocations here, in the Western world. A tool-kit to release day-to-day stress and peaceful, often communal mode of exercise.

It has more similarities with Tai-Chi, than anything I can think of. Again an Eastern practise.

I find some of the styles of Yoga out there grotesque in their interpretation. Mainly because of the freedom that Yoga gives in it's various translations. So who am I to say 'Yoga is not performative', when some forms of Yoga outwardly encourage this 'show-off' element.

You can rest assured that Iyengar is the classical form of Yoga, that the only performing that occurs here is when 'getting out' and 'putting away' the Yoga props 😊

Oh! 5 Asana to help back pain : Bharadvajasana, Parivrtta Trikonasana, Marychiasana 3, Parivrtta Parsvakonasana, Parivrtta Dandasana.