Yoga - Have You Tried it Yet?

One of my most intense passions in life is yoga. I sometimes daydream that when my children are all in school and my full-time-mom days are at an end, I will become a personal yoga instructor and share the splendor with others in the world who could use the release and uplifting experience of being a yogi. Maybe someday doing yoga will instill in me the confidence to actually do it. Sometimes yoga makes me think anything is possible. At the very least, I can share about it from the shy confines of Associated Content.

I know people have been doing yoga for a long time now. It was-what-a decade ago, that it became the new popular trend in fitness? And of course yoga as a self-art and meditation and ritual has existed for centuries. But I have to say that the fact that I was so skeptical about yoga as a modern fitness routine is a big part of what makes me so passionate about it now that I've embraced it. And the question I really want to pose and address here and now is, "Why haven't you tried it yet?" If you have some experience with yoga (beyond the initial falling over and crashing to the floor in pain and vowing you'll never put yourself through anything so ridiculous and impossible ever again), then you'll know what I'm talking about. Good for you! But if you've never tried yoga, I honestly have to say, you just don't know what you're denying yourself and your life. And no typical American life should be without it. I wish it were the common thing in our country for everyone to have their daily yoga, just like Mexicans have their rational siestas.

Now I'm soap-boxing instead of edifying. Suffice it to say, the body and mind and person benefit uniquely from yoga in ways that I think the average person is crazy to go without. For instance?