#22: The Cognitive Dissonance of Yoga
We practice yoga to heal. We practice yoga to make ourselves stronger - physically, mentally, and spiritually. I know that I first came to the yoga mat in search of something that would make me a better person. So it can be very hard for a yoga student to process the all-too-true reality that yoga is not the perfect path we intend it to be.
We practice yoga to be resilient, to be enlightened, and to be kinder to ourselves and to others - yet we don't always see those same practices in the larger yoga community.
The lack of diversity that I am seeing in the Ashtanga yoga community is a blatant…
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