Cultivating the Interest

Looking back at my practice, my deep interest for yoga was not immediate: I have always ‘like’ yoga, but I did not ‘love’ yoga. It took months before yoga came to me as to how much interest I have for it and how integral it has since became a part of my life. The first year or so, I was just ‘doing’ yoga, I was not ‘practicing’ yoga. I took classes from ‘instructors’, I do not see them as my ‘teachers’. The cultivation of passion not only takes time and effort, it is also about meeting the right people: I made time, I had efforts, but I did not meet the right people. Until I met them, my practice lacked that certain substance and meaning. An instructor ‘instructs’, but a teacher ‘teaches’. Indeed, I have come a long way from when I first started and I do not see myself not practicing, at least not in the near future. 

I wish all you practitioners out there a long and fruitful practice. I know I will.

Food for Thought:

Do you ‘like’ yoga, or do you ‘love’ yoga?