"When I teach now, I no longer look at a posture as something to do,
nor at the student as someone who should do it. I see the posture as
something to try, and the student as someone who might find it
interesting, with or without the potential benefit of my experience,
which may or may not apply to them. However they engage the posture, it
will be with their body: the body that they are, the body they
live through, a body I am not, a body that does not exist as I
experience it but as they do, in a way that I will never fully know.
Realizing that you can never fully know someone — because you are not
their body, which means you can neither possess nor change them — is at
the root of being able to love them while glimpsing your own
strangeness, and while keeping the bullshit to a minimum."
-- Matthew Remski
Quote taken from the blog post 'I am not (what you need) from my body: Expanding-on-a-yoga-meme" . Worth a read!
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