Final Practice Journal

My final summation on yoga is probably not the one most people will put. It has not done much for me as a whole and I very much doubt that it will. I know for most people it's supposed to help your flexibility and be more healthy but I could not fund any such effects.

I have found yoga to have absolutely no benefit to my body or soul that my regular meditations involving pagan religion and doctor prescribed physical therapies. Honestly, my doctor says I pushed myself too hard trying to complete this as it was detrimental to the progress I had made with the issues of one of my tendons.

I am not even sure I made much progress over the course of the semester due in part to my body issues and maybe not suffocating every time I did anything that sent my chest into my throat. That is only in the sense of practice.

Academically I did advance in my knowledge of the practices and of the philosophy of yoga itself. I originally assumed it was just some stupid 'fad' going on with white American women but it has a diverse and vast culture that peaked me curiosity.

Meditation

This was our final practice for the semester but I will mix it in with my own practices of meditation as a whole. In the sense of in class I could not reach my level of meditation as I usually do due to the distractions outside. At home, I have a quiet room dedicated to my meditation where I can relax and de-stress from the day as a whole and deal with my anxieties in peace.

On the subject of Yoga as a religion, in India it does seem as such with the cult-like appropriation Americans have done, such as they do with many things like turning people's cultures into disgustingly racist halloween costumes. But that is not my place to say as it is way past Halloween.