1. Attraction
Yoga's non-competitive. It's calming.
These attributes will attract a certain type of person.
In the west, it's the young, upwardly mobile female.
This woman is employed or married with kids. She looks after herself and is prepared to work to stay in shape.
2. The Practice
Yoga builds focus. It also builds discipline.
So if you're doing a lot of yoga. Building focus and discipline.
You're gonna want to start to get into the binds and the balances. Thing is.
Bulk gets in the way. So, with your focus and discipline, you are gonna move the bulk. To get into the poses more.
Your focus and discipline is what's moving the weight. Practice is just icing.
Here's another way of looking at it...
Body builders, train and eat for mass.
Runner are thin. Mass ain't helpin' them.
Gymnasts are compact and muscular.
Yogis, we'll we're eatin' healthy. But not for mass.
And the natural state of lengthening and strengthening - especially isometric holds like in yoga (where the muscle contracts, but doesn't change length) - is stringy hard muscle. Coiled muscles.
4. Yoga Throughout Your Life
There's a yoga lifecycle. It occurs over your entire life. And it goes like this...
You start yoga.
You get into yoga.
You go hard.
This is where you get injured and learn a lot about yourself.
You get calm.
You start to move more to the spiritual part of the practice.
You've done all the fancy, schmancy moves. They no longer appeal.
Now it's a basic practice (note: basic doesn't necessarily mean beginner).
That middle bit, where you're going hard. Your body will prolly change. You'll get a yoga body.
Not bulky. Possibly rail thin.
You'd really have to be eating rubbish, to maintain bulk during that phase. But then, you'd be also progressing spiritually, so you wouldn't be eatin' a diet of big macs.
Is everyone the same. Nope.
But a lot are.
That's why all the chicks at yoga are thin.
CU in class, J.
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