When you find yourself rushing, you can catch yourself and breathe out fully.. You can ask yourself if the sky will fall down, if someone will die, or if the world will stop spinning if you sit down for ten minutes and breathe the air....
As soon as you sit or make your breath smooth and even or remain quiet within a yoga posture, you are already realising the goal of Yoga: inner stillness.
" On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure." (Khrishna's advice to Arjuna).
(From 'Bringing Yoga To Life by Donna Farhi).
Photograph by J.Giacone