Yoga

Hi, I would like to hear from anyone who finds this community potentially interesting. Do we have enough interest in the topic of yoga to sustain a community?

Perhaps we could share a bit about our individual yoga practices and perhaps what we each might like from an online community?

I grew up in a redneck meshuggeneh quiet mountain town in the Rockies. At about the age of 14, I learned about yoga from a blurb in an old Readers Digest of all places. In retrospect it was quite an accurate depiction, much like you’d find in a textbook. I went to the community college library and devoured what books they had on yoga, and tangentially Ghandian political philosophy.

My unguided and solitary attempts at a physical practice didn’t last long. There was no community to practice with at the time in my whitebread universe. Over the years I have been drawn back to physical practice as circumstances have evolved.

I’m at a point where my practice has become central to my life. There’s no turning back now. As a deeply shallow man, I relish the physique and stamina I receive from my practice, but my appreciation for the mental and emotional benefits has deepened significantly in recent years.

I would like to focus on experiencing the social benefits of a yoga community, something that has largely eluded me so far. That’s on me, I am a stubbornly independent person with deep personal drives. So starting this community is part of a multi-pronged effort to ‘socialize my practice’.

My goal is to complete a 200 hour teacher training in 2025 as one of the real life efforts I am making toward the goal of deepening the community aspects of my practice.