My experience with yoga

Today in the yoga course that I am doing in Mysore (India), Acharye asked what means yoga for us. For me yoga is a philosophy of life, of thought, word and action. Going beyond attending class twice a week or appearing on social networking making a position very difficult for most humans, yoga is much deeper than all that. When you are lucky to cross into life with people who actually live in a state of yoga continuously and convey it with deep wisdom and respect, that is when you begin to understand a little about this millennial tradition. My experience with yoga began ten years ago in Barcelona (Spain). ​At that time I attended to kundalini yoga classes. I remember in that time I was crying when I heard the teacher singing mantras, something inside was beginning to wake up. At that time my mind was going through very different worlds to yoga, but somehow everything was gradually merged and connections began to come with people who practiced yoga and were somehow also on this path. An experience took me to another, and this to another, and so on until at the age of 33 I decided to start a Hatha Yoga training in Zaragoza (Spain)with a person who is very respected and recognized in this teaching. They were 4 years really intense, transforming, both for me and for the people that surrounded me, in this case my parents. Never before had I experienced a discourse at that level. Many days I would leave class crying, wondering what I was doing there and because that person was locking me and talking to me like that. Over time I have realized that without discipline and without a good base of yoga you can not become a good teacher. Today I am grateful for it. In a sad and difficult moment appeared a beautiful feminine light. Her classes pure poetry, her voice sweet and delicate, affectionate and close to the students. Another perspective different from the one that was accustomed and very valid also to transmit the teaching with such sensibility and devotion. Over the years, I began to change certain habits and to leave others in a very natural way, just without forcing, to look further in the outside, to rethink questions about what I was doing here and what is my mission on earth, and still there are unanswered questions, but I think I´m in the right path, for sure.

The food was one of those  changes. In the beginning my parents thought it was something temporary, but over the years they have seen that I continue with the same diet and I never fall ill and my energy level is always high. I do not go to clubs, I do not go out at night, instead, I use my time to continue studing, to walk in nature, and when I save some money after work I travel to India and Nepal, two countries that have made me grow much as a person.

This is the seventh time I have traveled to India, and each of them has been a great internal movement in many experiences, I feel that this is the experience that I lacked to live, to find a place where yoga teaching was not based on to obtain a certificate. I am almost sure that in very few schools in the world you can find this kind of teaching. You need to be also ready for that, to go deep, to feel the pain sometimes, to see your limits, to know your body, to forget your life and dedicate all your time to the practice.

In a few days I will be 39 years old, and every day I feel younger, more energetic, more confident of myself and the decisions that I make.  I am sure that it is for the yoga, also for to be more connected with myself and be more aware of how lucky I am to be able to life all this experiences.

I still have a long way to go, this has only started ...

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