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Has Your Yoga Practice Taught You? In my online yoga class, Can Yoga Really Change My Life?, I recently invited students to reflect on lessons they had learned from their yoga practice. How had their practice changed over time? What misunderstandings did they have about yoga when they started - and what insights had they gained since then? As a playful joke, I wrote a couple of haikus (a short stylized poem) about what I had learned from my yoga practice, and invited students to write their own. I was surprised to receive so many honest, artistic, funny, and wise haikus in response. Who knew so many yogis were also poets? I enjoyed them so much, I asked permission to share them in this newsletter. Here are some of my favorites. If you are inspired to write your own, I'd love to read them. Haikus Each 3-line (5-syllable, 7-syllable, 5-syllable) haiku is its own poem. at first, competed all pain no gain, suffer more! took a breath, let go.
must be a right way where is the teacher who knows? the teacher is me.
look in the mirror: the pose shows stiff spine and hips. but how does it feel?
backbend like crazy can touch my head with my feet! tomorrow, can't walk. showing
off is fun got
caught up in "buff" Hamstrings
hurt next day first
one foot, then two. inhale.
exhale. one. first
embraced extremes
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