Can You Be A Yogi And Still Do Other Sports?

Arrrrgh!

You know the real answer is no. But hey, it's 2016, and we are in the Western world. So.
The PC answer is <said in a serious voice> "Yes, of course, you can be a yogi and do other sports". Trouble is.

Modern western yoga is flat out being one eighth of one quarter (mathematically one thirty-secondth) of of old school yoga.

Asana is only one of 8 'limbs' of Raja yoga. Raja yoga is one quarter of all yoga. 8 x 4 = 32.

So, if you had to spend 32 more times practicing yoga, could you do it?

Say you do 2 hours per week, of modern class yoga.

If you had to spend 64 hours per week doing yoga (2 classes per week multiplied by 32), would you have time for other sports?

This is like, six 10 hour days and one four hour day. When on earth would you get time for other sports and to sleep?

So, old school yogis did it full time. They didn't do anything else.

So the answer to the question is:

Sure, you can be a (modern) yogi and do other sports. However.

You can't be an old school yogi and do other things in life, because yoga was your life.

Peace out, J.

P.S. I know the math in this is dodgy. Point is that it was a way of life back in the day.

Look modern yoga can - and should be - practiced all the time. So the question in the heading is wrong. It should be "Are You Still Practicing Your Yoga When You Do Other Sports?"

Now we've got a topic.