Making a home based yoga practice

Yoga can be daunting when you see a very flexible or model thin. muscled person performing the postures.  Modern marketing campaigns have been selling yoga for decades now as a form of exercise to keep one young and fit.  In the last 30 years, the original teachings of yoga have been swept under the rug, so to speak.  It is almost as if in some circles, the teachers and practitioners are ashamed of the beginnings.  In some places where yoga is taught, the teachers are not aware of its beginnings.  In a modern world where you can seek your original genetic coding from online websites, I find this forgetfulness gives me pause.  I ask:  "Was that what the ancient yogis were writing about when they said 'Heyam dukham anangatam'?"  That Sanskrit statement is from an old text called The Sutras.  It translates into "May the suffering yet to come be avoided".  It is from this reference point as well as many others that this yoga course begins.  This course takes your yoga practice to the private yoga mat in your home, which is where yoga works its best-- in it you will begin to deepen your practice. Personal transformation begins here and the effects only snowball over time.  As yoga takes hold, you will find that you begin again and again from a new place each time-- anew.  Anew with new awareness... not the same old, same old you came to the mat with ages ago or even yesterday.  Thinking is refreshed with new ideas and possibilities through the CCC's of yoga:  curiosity, compassion, calm, courage, creativity. Even, on a sensory level, your outlook has shifted.  You know how the air is refreshed after a storm?  Your mind is like that when you drop the heavy cognitive load of your conditioned mind and step into the unknown that follows.  And, it all begins here... on the mat... in you!  But, you just have to remember to unroll the mat!  I will meet you there... on the yoga mat!  Namaste friend!