Yoga and Meditation

Many students new to Yoga get stuck on all the Hindu gods.

Yoga is not about them .. its about you.

Krishna, in the Bhagavad Gita, is an example of a Yogi.

Look to that example.

-Yogini Valarie Devi

I always tell my students that, "Yoga is more than the poses." The new students often ask, "What does that mean?"

Being a Yogi is more than taking a Yoga class. To be a Yogi you need to be in samadhi, which means "standing within one's Self". Samadhi is a way of thinking that becomes a state-of-being.

For example, when you are doing a Yoga pose you are not doing Yoga, but concentrating on doing a Yoga pose. Which is why I explain to my students that they need to "Stop doing Yoga! Become Yoga!" This means being in the moment, being in the 'now', this means that every Yoga pose is a meditation, a singular expression of beingness.

When the mind is perfectly still within a Yoga pose, not striving to do it any better, not thinking about how it should be done; and when the mind is simply there, breathing, relaxed, with no expectation or attachment to what that pose is or means, then that is Yoga.

A Yogini is someone who is wholly absorbed in Creation - in enstasy (samadhi).

Om Peace!
Yogini Valarie Devi