“The Journey of Yoga is to Nothingness- it is not to gain, it is only to release”.

When there are inconsistencies and irregularities in your lifestyle, there will be imbalances in your body and mind. Whatever you do, there is this single piece of advice I will give you- Rise Early. This is the time when nature is fully in tune, there are no worldly distractions and the moments are yours alone. The mind has had little time to get influenced by the outer. This is known as Brahma Muhurta in the Ayurvedic and Yogic knowledge.

Almost two years ago I found myself in my first Yoga Asana class. I say first class as up until this point what I had been doing was physical excersise. I walked into the class thinking, I've done this many times before, I should be fine. Fine I was not. I couldn't hold Chaturanga Dandasana, my heels were not down in my Adho Mukta Svanasana (downward facing dog) who knows where my breath was, I even remember laying in Shavasana with my eyes open thinking; I prefer staring up at the ceiling then closing them. How much has changed.

What I want to share with this is, asana did not come easily for me. I am not naturally flexible and had extreme imbalances in my body and mind. But what I discovered was this: I know nothing. But what I experience is this: Through repeated practice, we become secure with insecurity, certain with uncertainty, comfortable with discomfort.

“You say Happy wife, Happy life.

I say Happy spine, Happy life”.

Through staying with one method, one teacher, or one practice, and increasing the number of things we do have control over, we increase our threshold for staying with all the things we have no control over. Over time, this open mind becomes our predominant experience on and off the mat. This is why we practice. “The Journey of Yoga is to Nothingness- it is not to gain, it is only to release”. No one said it better than Osho himself in "Notes of a Madman": “To know is to not know. Not to know is to know.”