When To Stop Practicing Yoga

There's usually asana that you are practicing to get into. Then there's asana that you can get into.

The question is, what do you do with the asana you're practicing to get into, once you can get into it?

Easy.

(Around) Half your practice should be going over stuff you can do. This is includes the highest level of asana you can competently achieve.

Now all you're gonna do, in the can-do practice, is ensure you can-still-do it.

The trick here, is to realize that once you can-do something, it takes less practice to maintain it.

The other half of the practice is stuff you're working on (usually your weakest area). This is the stuff you have to strap or block, or that you fall out of. Now.

At some point, you're gonna consistently nail the new stuff. This then needs to be incorporated into your can-do practice.

So, the bar is constantly being raised with your can-do practice. And new stuff (usually your weakest area) is being introduced into the can't-do practice.

People talk about yoga being balanced or yoga meaning balance, without really knowing what that means in a yoga practice. I know! Weird.

CU nailing it, J.

P.S. It might help to think of your yoga as doing yoga and practicing yoga.

The yoga you do is the stuff you can do.

The yoga you practice is the stuff you can't do.

Now half your yoga time is spent doing and half practicing.