Saturday, January 2, 2010

Yoga is Community or is it Really?

As I go through my yoga teacher life trying to make a go at making a living doing what I love, I see more and more it is all about the business. Even in arenas where there are venues to support the "yoga community", I see so many contradictions and road blocks. I am all for supporting the local community, whether it be Toronto, Canada, or wherever as we have all great talent to cultivate but at the same time there is a paradox. Yoga again like I said in my last blog is union. According to some venues, some of us aren't famous enough, some of us teach outside of the mainstream asanas (the fitness of yoga - the poses - we actually like to include the rest of yoga), so they don't want that either (well a few actually succeed at it), we are outside of the geographical area, and so on. The environment ' out there ' seems not conducive at times to the yoga community. Seems quite selective to me. But I do want to give props out there to the other teachers that are supportive. Like myself, they believe in supporting one another. I find these organizations that claim to support the yoga community actually creating limits and boundaries which in turns hurts the teacher and practitioner from growing; creating a yoga teacher typecast so to speak. They need massive sponsorships and have to set paramaters I guess from things getting wacky I guess...who knows....Hari OM

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