Well folks we knew it was coming. We American yoga folk couldn’t just leave well enough alone. In really 50 years , we have managed to bastardize a time old lineage, passed down verbally from guru to student, one on one and now… we can even agree what yoga is.

Instead of time honored tradition we have online courses to become a yoga teacher. Instead of reading the classic yoga texts we are using blogs as cliff notes thinking someone else is smarter and we’ll just use their info. We have wannabe’s everywhere, folks who think Sanskrit is “just a waste to learn”, and even the Chopra Center had an add on my linked in page offering to boost my business…is there anything left about yoga that isn’t about money? (Hence the profits not prophets).

Yoga is about quieting the mind to look at yourself. And not by doing it gazing into a mirror asking who is the fairest of them all….nor is real yoga about aiming to be the next contortionist on some magazine cover,or being a spokesyogababe. Those are fine in other contexts of modern society but they really aren’t yoga.

Read, discover, see how it resonates within you, practice, read more, practice more, learn. Repeat for the next 50 years.