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

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us strength to overcome the stressful

situations.

 

6. ADD ‘NON-CORE’ ASANAS

After you’ve figured out asanas you’re good at,

you genuinely enjoy doing, and set them as

the core of your practice, you may add more

things on top. You may deliberately include

even some ‘uncomfortable’ asanas into your

workout for a few reasons.

 

a) CHALLENGE. We naturally enjoy the feeling

of progress.

Imagine you need to solve a math test. Maths

has never been one of your strongest areas,

and it’s been 10+ years since you finished

school. You don’t feel particularly comfortable

to perform the task, and you aren’t sure you’re

going to make it.

But you take time, work hard and eventually

you solve it. You check the result with the

answer sheet, and it’s correct.