who am i?

 

...the question that drives the yoga practice is this one - who am i?

depending on where you are in your your journey, you will have a response that attempts to capture who you believe yourself to be. it may be literal, mundane, an application you fill out for a dating app: height weight ethnicity interests hobbies occupation, etc. it may be based on your readings of philosophical treatise. it may be based on your relationship tor religion or a spiritual system - clay and water, man and woman, spirits in human bodies going through a test of ethics, etc. or if you are like the fastest growing religion on earth - no religion - you may believe you are muscles and tendons, bones and blood, cells and bacteria, evolved from primates, two celled life forms, amoeba, a big bang. you may see yourself as cosmic entity, part descendant of a reptilian race from saturn. you may identify as everything and nothing. 

all of it is possibly true, if it is in the realm of your experience. the only way to know is to know, to go deep in this question - who am i?

through the yoga practice - asana and pranayama to begin with and then growing into the layers of the other anga's - you have the opportunity to go into the laboratory of the body-mind and gain insight into this you. 

so, as you go deeper in your journey in yoga, ask yourself this question: who am i? and see where it leads you. feel free to share your thoughts and entries with me.