True Yoga is Simple: 13 Steps to Deepen Your Home Practice by Olga Yumasheva - HTML preview

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self-practice, be creative, modify the asanas to

give your body what it really needs.

In essence, yoga means union. Your inner

nature and your external expression are in

alignment. You can do some running or skiing,

or any other exercise that makes your spirit

elevated, anything you truly enjoy, finish it off

with Shavasana and call it yoga. But if you

mechanically perform all the 84 classical

asanas, this is definitely not yoga.

 

MULTITASKING & SEQUENCING

In the past decade, multitasking has become a

trendy word. Seen as a ‘must-have’ skill of an

employee, it’s mentioned in thousands of job

descriptions. Yet, as time passes, the attitude

towards multitasking starts to change.

More and more scientific research proves that

our brain can only focus on one thing at a

time. We never actually do multitasking, we

just always switch from one activity to another

one.

Such exercise damages our brains, weakens

our mental abilities, drops our efficiency, and