“Do your practice and all is coming.” ~ Pattabhi Jois
Can yoga deliver miracles?
There is a lot of discussion about its near miracle effects on our health and well-being. Some people so strongly claim it as a cure-all that it’s easy to believe it is all hype. This weekend, the New York Times ran an excellent article by William J. Broad, whose book The Science of Yoga: The Risks and The Rewards is available next month, about the benefits and hazards of the practice. It should be required reading for everyone who’s even thinking of practicing yoga and certainly for all teachers. This kind of resource has been sorely needed by the yoga community for far too long.
Taking all of these cautions into account, the only way to know if yoga if for you is to give it a go – slowly and gently. And starting today, you can give it a try for free with some of the very best teachers on the planet right from the comfort of your own home. Join me and a few thousand others as we begin the 21-day Yoga Challenge with Yoga Journal. I participated last year and was so incredibly impressed by the online classes that I’ve been looking forward to 2012′s challenge ever since!
The Yoga Journal team has added a few features this year that will make it even better than 2011′s challenge:
1.) Connect online with the worldwide yoga community members who are participating in the challenge
2.) Choose your own practice – beginner or intermediate
3.) Set goals, share them, and get encouragement along the way
Wondering how to get started? The challenge begins today – register on the Yoga Journal site and every day you’ll receive an email with a link to that day’s online class.
If you join, let me know so we can keep each other going for the next 21 days. Let’s do this thing!