01. MY THREE POSITIVES.
1. I got sick with a cold, but quickly recovered, I can practice
2. One of the advantages of remote work is that you can work while lying in bed, especially if you have a cold.
3. Anticipation of holidays (not working days)
02. MY REFLECTIONS AND DISCOVERIES.
Reflections on a comment on YouTube: "Purely my personal opinion: Yoga is a sect that promotes Buddhism"
Every person has the right to their opinion, whether it is right or wrong. It’s interesting to understand where this opinion came from, offhand, I see two options: real personal experience and prejudices - like I heard something somewhere, someone said something, etc.
Personally, no matter how many times I went to yoga, they never tried to persuade me to join any religion or force me to do anything. Maybe I'm lucky. But usually in yoga they tell you, take this position, move this way, breathe this way. If you can't do this, do the simplified version. Watch your feelings, if something is wrong, stop and rest, the main thing is not to cause harm.
This topic seems more far-fetched to me, but I do not exclude possible personal experience.
There are different types of people and nothing will stop a person from calling something of his own that is not related to yoga.
Let me make an analogy with banks - these are the institutions to which we entrust our money. But would you trust money to anyone who calls themselves a bank representative? Now many of these representatives call and try to ask you for some code from a card or from an SMS.
And the first thing we want is to isolate ourselves from everything and, as in the song “screw this yoga, screw these smoothies... how I want to eat and not get fat.”
But then you will lose all the good that yoga can give you, and they can deceive you in something else that will be popular, for example, selling a subscription to a non-working gym or selling protection that will protect you from everything bad..
Here the question arises, how to distinguish a sect that disguises itself as yoga from real yoga?
Open yoga tells us that only that system of self-knowledge that leads a person to genuine, unconditional freedom through self-knowledge can be called yoga. And even yoga should be abandoned if it makes a person unfree. But let's not forget about responsibility.
Simply put, if they want to restrict you, go here, don’t go here, believe in this, but not in that, believe us, only we have the ultimate truth, because we received information from trusted sources, then you should turn on your brains and think about whether they are trying to deceive you for some gain?
If they ask for money for a lesson, this can be explained by the costs of renting a hall, the instructor’s salary, etc.
But if they offer to sell the apartment in order to support some good movement, then that’s different.
Ask “what is your evidence?”, what sources are they based on and can they be trusted?
You have ancient treatises and axioms, but why should I believe them?
I think that you shouldn’t, you can trust it, but you definitely need to check it on yourself.
Did this knowledge or practice help me?
Is there more freedom?
After the practice, did your body become more mobile and your mind freer?
Or, another option, take only the good from everything they try to give you. Even if the teacher adheres to some religion, it is not necessary to take religion, take only yoga.
03. MY YOGA INSPIRATION IN A WEEK.
I wanted to sleep longer, I looked at the clock, in half an hour the alarm clock went off, oh well, I’ll go and do some mantra-yoga. After half an hour it turned out that there was still an hour before the alarm clock, and at the same time I did the criya. It’s as if the body decided that practice is more important than sleep))
04. MY GRATITUDE AND PRAISE.
Mentors.
05. I WANT TO PRAISE MYSELF.
I look at my videos on YouTube, I keep remembering “what a face you have Sharapov”, and my wife looked at it and said that she liked my face)
06. PERSONAL YOGA PRACTICE IN A WEEK.*
4 days a week, 1-1.5 hours, kriya and mantra yoga
07. LEARNING DIFFICULTIES.*
Сold got in the way.