DAILY Last week I wrote about ‘right relationship.’ This week, I un-expectedly return to that theme due to an article in the NY Times on 1/5/12, “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Life,” by William J. Broad. It has gone viral in the Yoga community, and despite being well written, and informative, has created tremendous fear and negativity. It returns me to considerations of ‘right relationship.’ As a species, we long to destroy our gods as soon as we begin to worship them. Yoga is no exception. As gods go, Yoga is as great as anything else we choose to make a god, but the issue is anything that is all-consuming, anything and anyone we do not question, that which we make master/mistress of us-rules us. We cease to question, we become child like, assuming big-daddy, or master-momma will save us. Our dis-owned child within refuses to become an adult, a peer to/with our new god, and we allow ‘the fabulous guru’ to mastermind our life. Anytime we are that out of balance, we are ‘offered’ lessons. The teaching comes in bizarre, often insidious ways, making it difficult to understand what we truly need to incorporate, and learn. What is asking for balance? Being child-like does not mean giving up that lovely quality, for it offers wonderful gifts of joy and creativity. The lesson is forging a balanced polarity between inner child and parent. Being an adult means we grow into peership to, and with, our gods. Life is about learning to discriminate, then allowing partnerships to evolve from experience. In the very last line of a fear-filled, negative look at Yoga, William Broad wrote what could have been a wonderful opening salvo which was that Glen Black’s message is, “Asana is not a panacea or a cure-all. In fact if you… Read more »
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