What is Yoga? by Paul Reynolds

What is Yoga?
by Paul Reynolds

Yoga is the realization, or the remembering of the connection of those energies once thought to be opposites.

Yoga is a dance in the land of paradox.
The physical practice (Hatha yoga) I see as the manifestation in this physical realm of the ebb and flow. The balancing of those energies some could say is "inner-peace". Perhaps.

The vehicle or system attributed to it manifests in various hues and textures, whether it be in a hatha practice, mowing your lawn or helping your child with homework.

Hatha, Raja, Karma., Buddhism, Zen, - the ancients , just like ourselves in the present day, attempt to categorize and systemize "a way of being" to attain an unnamable.

Yoga in my experience, like the Tao, cannot truly be named, once it is it is no longer. At its essence is a spontaneous experience that we cannot look for and try so very hard to prepare for.