I for one thing too much “science” is a step away from what yoga is about. What I mean is that while yoga clearly has benefits for health, stress levels, well-being, etc., there are intangibles that can only be measured within each yogi as they engage in their practice while engaging themselves on the mat. Ideally, yoga can act as that backwards step Dogen wrote about, a form of moving Zazen with profound benefits.

More after reading.

(Hint: The GOP has issues.)

I use their Black Mat Pro. It’s fantastic.

We have a soul at times.
No one’s got it non-stop,
for keeps.

Day after day,
year after year
may pass without it.

Sometimes
it will settle for awhile
only in childhood’s fears and raptures.
Sometimes only in astonishment
that we are old.

It rarely lends a hand
in uphill tasks,
like moving furniture,
or lifting luggage,
or going miles in shoes that pinch.

It usually steps out
whenever meat needs chopping
or forms have to be filled.

For every thousand conversations
it participates in one,
if even that,
since it prefers silence.

Just when our body goes from ache to pain,
it slips off-duty.

It’s picky:
it doesn’t like seeing us in crowds,
our hustling for a dubious advantage
and creaky machinations make it sick.

Joy and sorrow
aren’t two different feelings for it.
It attends us
only when the two are joined.

We can count on it
when we’re sure of nothing
and curious about everything.

Among the material objects
it favors clocks with pendulums
and mirrors, which keep on working
even when no one is looking.

It won’t say where it comes from
or when it’s taking off again,
though it’s clearly expecting such questions.

We need it
but apparently
it needs us
for some reason too.

- William Blake

Get an accountant, abstain from sex and similes, cut, rewrite, then cut and rewrite again – if all else fails, pray.

There are two parts, both are fantastic.

Brilliant idea.

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