The Beauty of Yoga

This is Briohny Smyth. This Equinox (American based health centre) video has been going viral, but for those who haven't watched it, here you go.

I believe in the beauty of yoga. I've been practicing yoga for a while now. On most days when I'm feeling particularly stressed out or overstrained from a long day, I do some sun salutations in my room and immediately feel the 'chi' radiating out from my fingers. I've been very active ever since I was a little girl, but yoga really is a different workout altogether. I feel it really allows me to have such amazing alone time.

While we are so accustomed to form and structure and the discipline yoga brings us, the pure message yoga has is for us to incorporate self-awareness, self-improvement and self-love. When you are on your mat, you can feel the strong connection you have with yourself. What makes yoga truly approachable is that there are little techniques to learn but more of the willingness and the drive to open yourself up to learn.

Yoga has been known to carry the healing effects of medicine through their practice. What draws me to yoga is how you are essentially made to trust your body. The poses you perform teach you to flow WITH your body, instead of against it. You are not to overstrain yourself. You are not to over think the pose. Yoga is a flow of movements that fully engage your body mind and soul.

Namaste.