Yoga aphorisms and other words
Teaching yoga is impossible; that is why it is difficult.
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Well I say there are two kinds of people that I despise: yoga teachers and intellectuals. And I am both.
Getting so little recognition can, dangerously, turn a competent yoga teacher into a megalomaniac, and that is what happened to me. An incompetent yoga teacher is safe from that danger.
An experienced and wise practitioner (a yogin) does not interfere in his yoga practice.
In my yoga class, I and the yoga students understand each another perfectly. They don’t hear what I say and I do not say what they want to hear.
Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory, I’ve been told. But the 99% practice is 100% theory and 100% practice, I add. (Need a hint to understand that better? Here it is: “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”—‘Yogi’ Berra, an American professional baseball catcher and coach)
“Repetition is the mother of skill.” Only as long as there’s skill in the repetition.
The whole idea is not to strive to “have” more energy, but to allow more energy to pass through me. What is energy? That is a stupid question.
Once, after a Hot Yoga class, a student asked me: “Why do we have 90-minute classes? Isn’t 90 minutes too long... In another studio they had 60-minute classes!” I said: “Oh, okay. Actually, I was planning for 120 minutes. Let’s make a deal: we’ll keep it at 90 minutes.” (This is a true story.)
