Words

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

I could write about dancing at length and at my best, and I wouldn’t succeed in telling you much. But if you get up, put on some music, and dance right now, then you know something that cannot be written. And if you enjoy it and get into it, then you really know something that cannot be written.

So too yoga.

There are a lot of words on this website. Words are an available tool that we can use together, so I work hard at them though they’re much less useful than teaching you.

We cannot with words show what is not words. Words cannot teach. Doing teaches. But words may inform. I write about yoga to point to ways I have found useful to teach.

Yoga goes away from words. Word ways of thinking often mislead and also keep us in mistake.

It is our misfortune and weakness that we believe our own words. We keep repeating ourselves to each other and to ourselves and persuade ourselves.

The stories we watch and the stories we tell ourselves more often confine us than enable. And the words keep getting in the way of actually noticing and feeling ourselves.

The more we get away from words and ideas the more we feel and free ourselves. The quiet part of our brains is bigger and smarter. We quiet and move and feel to listen with it and to it.

I guide you. Our doing is in moving and feeling.

If words worked, we wouldn’t need yoga. Yoga has poses and breathing and meditating because words don’t work.

Yoga works better away from false understandings. Get a good teacher and expect to surprise your expectations.