The Slow Burn of a Yogi’s Becoming: milestones to 700 Bikram yoga classes

Moved to a new center, fired by a disciplined pattern moment by heated moment, yoga fastens you into a deep curriculum of transformation where your spine moves as it was meant to move and your breath deepens your experience of life. When you step across a liminal threshold into a ritual container – like a yoga studio – and follow the guru (your breath) you drop into a deep well of wisdom.

 

Class 700 with Robyn and Terri at The Foundry Yoga Paradise Valley, AZ Feb. 24, 2025

Yoga invites you to dig deep; when you do, you’ll catch a glimpse of the periphery turned central. You’ll learn to inhabit contentment and put on garments of integrity and your life will feel like slow-motion shapeshifting in space. Bodily shape shifts happen in yoga, but meditation and movement also shift perspectives.

 

These psychosomatic shifts are yoga’s therapeutic, opening a gate between conscious and unconscious, laying bare a pathway for a return to the depth of self. In the self that is you – the same through all time – a bodily physiology meets a mental/spiritual soul where all space and time is negotiable. This meeting alters the nervous system by pausing the strategic and analytic mind while feeding the meditative mind. Yoga calls this a state of yogacittavrittiniroda.

 

Yoga’s activation of mind, body, and spirit doesn’t happen on the same timeline for everyone, but yoga’s journey will take each yogi to the ground of their being in a breathcentric and healing therapeutic, setting them on the way to their good things comin’ . . .

 

#100 Mark at Bikram Yoga Kona, Hawaii August 25, 2013

 

#200 Yolanda at Bikram Yoga Kona, Hawaii June 8, 2014
# 300 Krista at Bikram Yoga Kona, Hawaii 2015

 

#400 with JeniLynn at The Foundry Yoga, Tempe, AZ November 30, 2021

 

#500 David at The Foundry Yoga, Tempe, AZ  March 28, 2023
#600 Todd at The Foundry Yoga, Tempe, AZ April 2, 2024

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