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Bringing Yoga's Peace into Your Daily Life #shorts

6 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Ashish Kothari. This content was uploaded by Ashish Kothari. This is a YouTube short titled "Bringing Yoga's Peace into Your Daily Life #shorts" (created 2024-03-06). The excerpt is a monologue by a yoga instructor speaking to students about maintaining the calm and benefits cultivated in yoga class throughout daily life—encouraging short moments of mindfulness during everyday activities (washing dishes, conversations, breathing) and questioning why we reserve our best selves for the studio. It is a spoken, instructional/reflective piece rather than a multi‑speaker dialogue.

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I'm looking at my students as they're rolling up their mat and leaving the room, and already they're being pulled out of that state of being that they just cultivated, and they're losing it in a matter of seconds because now life is interrupting that blissful state. And so how can you maintain that for longer periods of time and also recognize that you don't have to go spend an hour on your mat to feel the benefits of holistic well being, that you can actually feel this when you're at home washing the dishes, having a conversation with your children or your partner, spending some time breathing within yourself for a few moments. And I always think when we get into the studio together and I look around at the room of like 40 students, how were you all behaving before you got here? Do you think you were at your highest and best? Because when you made the choice to come to class, that's where your practice started. And then why do we reserve our best selves for when we get to that moment? Why aren't we at our best selves at all times?