When the roots are deep, there is no reason to fear the wind.

When we know and honor our traditions, we cultivate a sense of comfort and belonging. We follow tradition because it brings light to the awareness of our roots, heritage and sense of being.

However, this feeling of belonging is not inherent in all of us. Some might fear tradition different than the one they’ve been taught, and some are so attached to it that just the thought of change frightens them. As the world is progressively becoming culturally diverse, traditions are being transformed and modified according to needs. And this is all normal, as long as we as human beings succeed in preserving the roots of the origins and their purpose.
Paying respect to traditions offers an exceptional setting for meaningful pause and reflection.

Pause and reflection. One of the inevitable components of our yoga practice. Pause to reflect on our beliefs, perspective and attitudes which might need reshaping so that we can accommodate to the changes around us. While at the same time not losing our sense of alignment with our true nature.

This is the moment where it all intertwines and awakens our responsibility to preserve and progress.
Yoga traces its roots back to the Indus Valley, and it said to have been practiced since the dawn of civilization. Through the ages it was spread all over the world, carrying the light to those who seek illumination.
We live in this age of accelerations, expectations, always in search for stimulus and excitement. Hard to pause and even harder to reflect on our relationships, habits and eventually our lives. This is one of the reasons why even yoga traditions have been altered or in some cases even forgotten.

In order to satisfy the western mind, yoga lessons have become a place where people go to work their core in power vinyasa yoga and get faster results in their goal of having the ideal yoga body type.
All this neglects the roots of yoga and their purpose. And that is stilling the monkey mind to single-pointed concentration, finding inner peace and integrating our body, mind and soul in order to reach our inner light which slowly dims off by our indifference.

The word alone describes its purpose. Whatever form of yoga we practice, in any place in the world, if we manage even for a moment to unite the body and mind with our true nature, we are following the roots of the yoga tradition.
And in order to do this, we should be mindful and aware of the body movements and its stillness, finding the possibility to attain the connection of the origin and our momentary state, go inward and surrender ourselves to this ancient tradition of self-discovery.

Because only when we truly know who we are, we can reach our highest potential, with no reason to live in fear and conditioned mind. Only then we can act out of love and compassion, respecting where we’ve been and welcoming everything that comes.