Re-ignite your yoga with something new

 
I was away for a wonderful weekend of yoga last week and feel replenished in my personal practice. I rediscovered more spaciousness, forgotten techniques, and re-ignited some subtle changes that are translating into a more transformative daily practice for me. 
 
Some aspects of practice come to the forefront with a teacher observing how you are in your yoga and guiding you from what they notice. We all slip into being on auto-pilot sometimes. We assume we know what we are doing (and we might, more or less), we assume we know how to 'do' the pose or the breath, and forget to let the body and breath lead the way, and be listened to, and responded to in new ways each time we arrive in our practice.
 
As is so common in the rest of our life, we lead from our heads, and 'will' ourselves into the poses and techniques - which is great, but not as fruitful. Once you are established in a regular practice, this is one of the pitfalls that can arise. 
 
Practicing at home is wonderful, I'm a huge advocate of it - but face to face contact with a teacher to help observe, prompt and redirect you can be so helpful in rekindling how transformative our practice can be.
 
Trying new ways of doing familiar things can be completely refreshing. ​