Why yoga

Sometimes it feels like you are trapped by your own body–by aches and pains, by sickness, by physical abilities.

But somehow practicing yoga makes it feel like instead of the body’s desires dominating the mind, the mind is able to control the body.

Today I stopped myself from sneezing during yoga by recognizing it was just a false trigger from my body.

I suspect that meditation works similarly, by training the soul to direct the mind instead of the monkey mind trampling the soul. But I’m not quite there yet unfortunately…