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The Yogi Way by Carolina Covelli
”Yoga is the dance of every cell with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity and harmony.”-Debasish Mridha
The yogi way ! A pretentious title, don´t you think ? The truth is that there is not such a thing as
three stories of very unlikely people that found “the way” in yoga, this spiritual discipline that themselves dragged into this practice for disaims to bring harmony between mind and body tinct motivations. has been part of humanity since the very dawn of civilization, long before the first religions or Let’s start this journey with Laurynas: belief systems were born. A lot of times it is understood as a therapy or exercise for health Yoga to me started as a very personal jourand fitness but it’s main purpose goes further ney. It allowed me to really fall in love with than that. yoga and not the teacher if that makes sense because a lot of the times we can get intro“Yoga is about harmonizing oneself duced to things that we really like or we enjoy with the universe. It is the technology because of people, but to me was more the of aligning individual geometry with yoga itself, like doing it and experimenting the cosmic, to achieve the highest and trying different things and treating it like level of perception and harmony” a game in a way. Treating it like when you’re a child and you’re exploring something new (B.K.S. Iyengar) and you’re not fully sure what it is but you’re So in order to honor the different paths that trying anyway and you fail and you do it again connect us with yoga, I want to share with you and you fail and you get up so that’s been yoga for me. I think it’s a fun and amazing thing because even to this day, I discover new things or I challenge myself or I practice something that I´m not fully capable of yet.
And It would now be around a year that I’ve
been doing it sort of consistently and I think I don’t notice the changes in me as fast, for example, as when I was going to the gym, but I think I´ll grow up and change as a person from inside out more, and then physical changes will come along as well, but they are not the motivator for me if that makes sense, it’s having a clear mind and loving myself that I really cherish and that’s basically what yoga does to me.
Laurynas is 24 years old and was born in Lithuania. Currently he´s a volunteer of the European Solidarity Corps in Thessaloniki Greece.
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