Right now

Reading from Wednesday, September 2, 2015 yoga class

From the book 365 Yoga daily meditations by Julie Rappaport

"Yoga is happening right now.  It is Now.  And it is simpler than you think.  Through yoga we dive straight into the heart of life and into what lives inside of us.  We feel this in our pores; in our muscles, bones, and breath.  We feel our connection to all that "Is" and we have direct experience of this "Isness" every time we connect our body to our breath.  Borrowing a phrase from the poet Kahlil Gibran, yoga is simply a most fundamental and intimate expression of life's long for itself; we are the life, the love, and the joy we seek.

Nothing external is required to enter into yoga.  More important than any text or any teaching is your relationship with your own body, breath and mind--with your own true Self.  When authentic body-mind integration occurs, a wholeness emerges that leads us toward profound peace.  This is yoga.

Lately, everywhere I turn people seem interested in yoga.  "Do you 'do' yoga?" they ask.  "How long have you been doing yoga?  What kind of yoga do you do?"

When you start "doing" yoga, you miss it all together.  It becomes another pastime, rather than a way of being.  Try living yoga, being yoga, and notice the difference between doing and being."