Making Progress

Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,

This week in class we are considering the topic “Making Progress.”

If Yoga were designed to work on the surface only, we should expect immediate visible results. Fortunately, however, Yoga seeks to change us at all levels of existence. Its influence reaches deep into our mind. Hence we must be prepared for prolonged practice in order to allow Yoga to do its work in depth.

It is certainly possible to see positive change even after one or two session of Yogic postures, and after six months of correct and steady postural practice, we should find ourselves calmer and more balanced. But for deep psychological and spiritual effects, we must be prepared for a lifetime of practicing yoga in its entirety – from the moral disciplines to postures to breath control to meditation. There is no instant enlightenment. No one can enlighten or liberate us from the outside. We ourselves must do the inner work.

- Georg Feurstein

The homework is to ask yourself if you are ready for and prepared for “change at all levels of existence”. What would this change entail? What does it mean to you to “do the inner work”? Are you ready to devote yourself to practicing consistently over a long period of time?

Blessings,

paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994

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Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003