Yoga to me, is life. It is lifestyle, it is what we practice on our mats and at our alters but it is also in the details from what we eat and how we eat it, to the decision to take our cloth bag to the supermarket. It is in the smile with which we greet a stranger or in that feeling we get in our hearts when our loved ones smile at us. It gives us choice, it gives us pause, it tempers our reactions and smoothes the bumps in the road.
It is within us to curate the life we would like, there is never perfection but the nectar is felt in how we handle the imperfect. Yoga teaches us the art of filling our cups and gives us the means with which to share the sweetness with others. It brings the clarity to understand what makes us ourselves, the equanimity to accept that, what ever it is and the discernment to work out what leads us to contentment. It is practice and patience and work but it is within each of us if we choose to welcome it.