More Than Poses

Walk into any modern yoga studio, and you'll find gleaming hardwood floors, expensive mats, and students perfecting their downward dogs. But this $116 billion industry bears little resemblance to yoga's profound philosophical roots. 

Yoga is a science of self-realization, not a workout routine. It is a journey to understand your true nature and the nature of the world around you. The ancient practitioners of yoga weren't concerned with perfect poses. In fact, the physical poses didn't even exist in early yoga. They were created centuries later. What you see in modern yoga studios today - the mats, the poses, the workout clothes - that's all recent invention. The original yoga was something far more profound. Far more encompassing. It was humanity's first complete exploration of consciousness itself.

While later teachers like Patanjali would attempt to systematize it, true Yogi philosophy is fundamentally eclectic, meaning that it draws from countless generations of realized masters across various traditions. Think of it as humanity's earliest laboratory of consciousness, where seekers tested and refined methods for understanding reality itself.