On Yoga Practice: What You Do vs. How You Do It

In yoga, what you do is far less important than how you do it. COMMENTARY: Any practice—postures, breath control, meditation, mantra, devotion, inquiry—can be taken up as part of the attempt to secure oneself against discomfort, to become complete, pure, in control—invulnerable. And in that case, the practice only reinforces the very problem it was meant to solve—just as a stronger desire for…