If yoga were a living being, đź“ťMeditation would be its body. Yoga is meditation. And meditation is yoga.
Or rather, yoga, at heart, is a *meditative *endeavour, and meditation is a fundamentally *yogic *exercise.
The operative principle of meditation-in-yoga is this: when you attentively execute an asana that arouses uncomfortable emotions, feelings or sensations, you will encounter all the strategies that your mind has towards not having to face them.
And it could be anything that triggers this mental mirror—even being “good” at a certain pose can bring forth your egoic patterns.
But most acutely, what yoga reflects back at us, and makes us want to look (and go) away from during practice, are discomfort and pain.
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