Why Yoga? Featuring: Shai Dhali

Posted: Tue, June 1, 9:30am by YYoga Base Camp

At YYoga, a girl timidly told me I had my yoga pants on inside-out - she’d seen me arrive from the street like that! I burst out laughing and then she laughed, too. Three years ago I’d have shrunk in embarrassment but that was pre-yoga.

I first tried yoga to rejuvenate from physical exhaustion, caused by grief after a death. The grief was heart-based –it couldn’t be spoken to -but yoga wordlessly relieved it. I moved on to use yoga to calm mind-based anxieties. Now I do it to express what Sjanie at YYoga calls brightness: “Reach for the sun like kids do.”

It shows me I’m in-sync: Before class at Yaletown, I flipped my book to a random page and read about being happy for no reason. Fifteen minutes later Clara dedicated the session to that very theme. What’s yoga, what’s spirit, what’s my daily life? I can’t tell one from the other anymore.

Why Yoga, Shai Dhali

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