Yoga Is Discipline

If you want to transform your life in ANY positive way, the transformation you desire will not happen by itself.

The work is yours. YOU have to make it happen, YOU have to put in the hours, YOU have to turn those hours into relentlessly staying on the path for years. 

We all want the freedom to be ourselves, and to be able to make choices and live without constraint. The only way to get that kind of freedom is to have DAILY discipline and to do that thing regardless of mood, preferences, or excuses.

That daily discipline then becomes a mirror, a proxy, a PRACTICE for how you operate everywhere else in your life.

At some point, it became popular to treat yoga as if it’s something that we do to feel good once in a while if we are feeling bad. It also became popular to group yoga into “I like this/it/them” or “I don’t like this/it/them,” similar to how a restaurant critic might review a plate of pasta. If this is your view of yoga, the benefit and devotion of treating yoga as a discipline—regardless of your opinions—will completely transform what you are able to receive from your practice.

Discipline makes us bigger than our preferences, better than our bullshit, and gives us the keys to our inner kingdom of a life full of self-awareness and freedom.

Who doesn’t want that?