Be your own guru.

Having started my Yogic path not long time ago (I have been practising seriously just for a year and I started teaching in May 2013) I feel I am still at the very beginning in the process of embodying the ideal qualities of a Yogi, which are well explained in Patanjali Yoga Sutras, called the Eight Limbs of Yoga.


Still a lot to work on my Yamas (the ethical standards) and still I haven't connected enough to meditation pure and simple.

Sometimes this fact makes me feel weak, insecure...
Sometimes it even blocks me so much that I start feeling hypocrite, fake.

But then some other times I find myself listening to my own voice saying things like:


"We are used to think that we are born with a natural capacity to be aware of our bodies but this is not true.
We have to train ourself to listen to the body.
We have to cultivate the habit to stop and listen.
This is why Yoga is so great: you don't finish with Yoga in the moment you're walking out of the class. You bring Yoga with you on your desk, on the bus, in the moment before falling asleep. Because Yoga is a technique for being more present, more aware."

I listen to my own voice saying this to the only person that appeared to my 8am class this morning (bless her, what a wonderful soul!) and I think: wow!


Sometimes we underestimate ourselves. We think we are not good enough because our actions are still full of mistakes, bad habits, weaknesses.


But deep inside we all are enlightened, free of bonds, full of knowledge and truth.


This is the meaning of the sentence "be your own Guru".



Namaste :)