Your Intrinsic Worth

The real Yoga challenge

Every. Single. Class. Course. Workshop. Training. Yoga Therapy Session. They all aim to support you finding your intrinsic worth. Not the worth you gain by having heavy bank accounts. Youthful glows. Coveted marriages. Perhaps children. College degrees. Admirable skills and talents. Fancy wardrobes. Full heads of not grey hair. High paying jobs. Natural beauty. Strong, flexible bodies. Charisma. Sharp intellects. The more we attach to the self-identities we build in relation to these objects, the people, the places, the realities, the things, the more it hurts to lose them. Each of the above blessings has an opposite, and not one we love to entertain, let alone experience.

Intellectually simple, but experientially convoluted is this point: the same life upgrades and realities we strive for, every single one of them, is characterized by impermanence. So we’re somewhat doomed from the start, because here we are desiring this and that to be complete. What if we don’t have this or that, or don’t get this or that? Furthermore, what if we have it or get it, then it’s taken away?

Let’s face it, these, and countless choices, acquisitions and proclivities define our very existence. It’s a natural phenomenon that when the status changes, we suffer. Yoga philosophy puts forward that parinama, change, is one of the four causes of suffering, that even the sages are not exempt from this. Does all of life, characterized by constant changes, have to bring suffering? No! Pending our current healthy habit building, the perpetuation of self-induced suffering is preventable.

It’s a relief, right? And a tall order, because it’s deep work that no one can do for us. Work we have to slow down for. Work that asks us to feel, to look into all we run and hide from. To identify even those vāsana-s, latent impressions, as impermanent, and to create new, safe, easeful, light, faith-infused successions of moments. Yoga holds our hand and walks us to the edge of our suffering and gives us the very tools to hug us in, hold us and heal us.

Join us in classes this month and classes and courses next month for a safe, low key, high vibration journey to the center of your soul.