 Id like to preface by saying: The following post can be seen in 2 ways... 1 - Me being a hater / Being judgemental / Pointing a finger directly at you.(if the shoe fits i guess).
Or 2 - Simply calling out the unrelenting bullshit in the room, so people stop slipping-up on it and injuring themselves. Kinda like helping an elderly person cross a busy road. Or warming up the milk before giving it to your cat, because you love her. I say what I say, from a place of intended care. Ok, now thats out of the way, lets begin. YOGA PORN I find the way in which most people advertise and market Yoga these days to be outlandishly off-putting, disingenuous, and utterly detached from its traditional intention. Its entirely oxymoronic. From where Im sitting, the practice of Yoga has become more about a physical showing-off than anything else. It has become an excuse to don some tight flowery pants, while sticking a bare ass in the air - combined with a Mahatma Gandhi quote. And people bite the biscuit, every time. Come on, we are of far more intelligence than this. To clarify, theres nothing wrong with it per say…but there sure as hell aint nothin right about it either. Now, I’m not a yoga person myself, as my heart belongs with Qigong, so my comments are that of a bystander. But, in my limited yogic education, I’m pretty sure that its tradition was more about unraveling from the ego and developing spiritually…rather than feeding the ego and becoming more under-developed. Lets just call it what it is: Yoga, in the social media age, has become vacant pseudo-spiritual pornography! Nothing more, nothing less. Its not inherently bad, unless you fall for it - Then it can be deadly. Pssst. I have a secret to tell you - The Yoga you see, the Yoga that calls itself Yoga, is not actually Yoga. I know, for sure, there are still some rare teachers hidden away, who have managed to stay true to its traditional art form, while being totally washed away by (who I playfully refer to as) the “Insta-ass-yogis”. These teachers need to be assisted, supported and shared. So they become the first entry point for newcomers interested in learning Yogic practice. My condolences go out to these rare teachers. It must be a tremendous challenge to keep something of such integrity & potency alight, when everyone around you is shitting the bed like its New Years Eve. I have a few friends who are “Insta-ass-yogis” and I love you guys. I dont see your posts, because I want to continue loving you - Kinda like that Mario Winans song from the 90s; "I dont wanna know". Go do your thing, if you really feel its in alignment with you & it serves the collective development, “aho”. To reiterate, this post is not an intended attack. It is an intended illumination. Its never about being perfect, but it is everything about waking-up. I say what I say, in the way that I say it, with the frequency it carries, only because I give such a large fuck about us, as humans, trying our best just to get by. This post is not for the “Insta-ass-yogis” who want to be “Insta-ass-yogis”. This post is for the “Insta-ass-yogis” who don’t know that they are “Insta-ass-yogis”. For the ones who think that they are actually doing Yoga, and that this is what Yoga is about. I reach out to you, because you are the ones in trouble. There is another path, a much more supportive and healing path. You have been compromised. Your ego and desire for love and validation has been used against you, and disguised as a spiritual tool for internal development. (i mean it is, but there are slightly cleaner paths.) Maybe one day we will have I.A.Y.I (Insta-ass-yogi intervention) groups. Which will be headed by real Yoga teachers. What a glorious transition this would be for humanity. Finally, I would like to extend an official apology to all the male masturbators, who have been using Instagram solely as their #1 pornographic platform. I understand that the direction I would like to see Yoga advertising go may not be in alignment with your furious need to self-pleasure to the hashtag #downwardfacingdog. But brothers, all things change. Save your libido for another day. For a better day. The sun shall rise once more. The sinister fact of the matter is, we are a society who have been encouraged to place all the value on the superficial. On the external. On only what we can see, and thats how it tricks, manipulates and weakens us. For someone who really comes to understand energy, they know its not about what you can see. Its about what you cannot see - For this is where the true development in practice is occurring. This is where the true connection in lovemaking is forming. This is where the truest healing is unfolding. True substance, is within what cannot be seen directly with the naked eye. It calls on a deeper form of seeing. In love & responsibility, Your friend & foe, Chris 
1 Comment
Tamilkumaran
2/11/2020 11:20:17 am
I would like to just point out that yoga poses and their associated breath patterns are within itself hugely beneficial inspite of it not eradicating the minds ego or providing spiritual growth. Leave a Reply. |
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