{"id":325418,"date":"2010-02-16T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/16\/why-less-is-more-in-your-yoga-practice\/"},"modified":"2010-02-16T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T07:15:00","slug":"why-less-is-more-in-your-yoga-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/325418","title":{"rendered":"Why Less is More in Your Yoga Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"When I was in my yoga<\/a> teacher training program, I often heard my teacher say in class, “less is more.” It’s the last thing you want to hear as an eager yoga student, striving for optimum output. We’ve been brought up in a society where we’ve been led to believe in the idea of “no pain, no gain.” Many yoga practitioners, myself included, have been wired to think this way. And yet, going beyond our limits, huffing and puffing, and forcing our way into poses are as far from yogic as we could possibly be.<\/p>\n

An article by yoga philosopher Joel Kramer<\/a> called ‘<\/span>Yoga as Self-Transformation<\/a>,’ examines what Kramer calls “playing the edge.” Our bodies have edges that mark our limits in strength, stretch, endurance, and balance. For example, there is a limit to our stretch that he calls the “maximum edge.” The edge is a feeling of intensity and, it comes right before pain. The edge changes constantly, from breath to breath, pose to pose, practice to practice. Sometimes it moves forward, and other times, it retreats. With this in mind, no two yoga practices will ever be the same.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Advice, Fitness, Fit Yoga When I was in my yoga teacher training program, I often heard my teacher say in class, “less is more.” It’s the last thing you want to hear as an eager yoga student, striving for optimum output. We’ve been brought up in a society where we’ve been led to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}