Living our yoga – yoga as a lifestyle

We are happy to again hear from one of the MissFIT Yoga Instructors, Maryanna – Today’s guest blogger

By seeing others happy, you can’t be unhappy.  But by making everybody unhappy, you can never be happy yourself.  So, at least for your happiness, bring happiness to others” –taken from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali translated by Sri Swami Satchidananda

Initially I started practicing yoga to help with stress, manage migraines, and relieve anxiety.  I soon found that yoga isn’t just exercise.  Yoga is more than practicing poses on a mat for an hour during class.  Yoga is a lifestyle.  It is embedded in every action, every thought, and every choice a person makes.  How are you living your yoga?  Are you making mindful, positive choices in your life?  How can we all infuse our lives with positive energy?  Obviously we can’t all be perfect and happy all the time.  However, we can be conscious of our words, actions and demeanor.

We are all familiar with the one person  on Facebook who posts only negative thoughts and depressing details of their life.  Lets call her Debbie Downer.  Every post is about something bad that has happened to her.   The posts might include a daily rundown of how a different family member has fallen ill with the flu, how unlucky she is, or why we should feel bad for her.  Debbie downer radiates negative energy.