Personal Yoga Practice

A personal practice shouldn’t be random, it should follow a recipe. Sure, it’s great to get on your mat without a plan, turn on some music, and move. I’m all for that. But rituals aren’t random; they’re repetitive. Rituals aren’t based on our feelings; they transcend them.

We don’t tune a guitar randomly, we tune it to the right notes. Once it’s tuned, we can play any song in the world - or write our own. We don’t bake a good sourdough by guessing ingredients and timing. We follow the recipe and watch it rise. If we want a sweater, we don’t try a new stitch each time. We repeat the pattern until it becomes second nature.

It’s our choice: do we want our practice to just be *vibes* or do we want it to take us somewhere new - not physically, but spiritually. Repetition creates fluency, and fluency brings freedom. Once you know the recipe by heart, you don’t need to look at the steps anymore. You can season it, improvise, and make it your own.

We start with structure because it gives the spirit a place to rise. Eventually, the structure dissolves, so the spirit can move freely in space and time.