What Nobody Tells You About Yoga. 

What Nobody Tells You About Yoga – But You Really Should Know

Yoga feels good. Physically and mentally.

Yoga helps you in life.

Yoga changes your life.

All true.

But something important is often forgotten.

There is something that almost nobody tells you when you begin practicing yoga.

The Princess and the Pea

Do you know the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen?

It tells the story of a prince who wants to marry a real princess. Who wouldn't? 🙂

One stormy evening, a young woman knocks at the castle gate and claims to be a princess.

The queen is wise and experienced – and she has seen a lot in her life.

To test the young woman, she secretly places a tiny pea underneath twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds.

The next morning at breakfast, the young woman complains that she slept terribly because something hard had been lying in her bed.

Then the queen knew that the young lady must truly be a real princess, because only someone so sensitive could feel the pea through all those mattresses.

The prince marries her, and they all live happily ever after.

Yoga Turns You into a Princess – or a Prince! 🙂

Many people believe that when they begin practicing yoga, life will become easier and lighter.

But that is only half the truth.

In reality, when you begin practicing yoga, you become more sensitive.

More aware, more sensitive, and sometimes even more irritable.

You begin to notice things in yourself and in others that you never noticed before.

Suddenly, you feel things that have always been there.

There were simply too many mattresses covering them.

At first, this does not always make life easier.

But that is part of the journey.

It is perfectly normal.

Not Everything Gets Better. You Become More Awake.

Many people hope that yoga will remove all their problems.

But yoga does not take away the pea.

Yoga turns you into the princess.

You become more sensitive.

And sometimes that does not feel good at all.

But the journey of yoga continues – and goes far beyond that.

Over time, you learn to relate differently to everything you perceive.

You do not just become more sensitive.

You become calmer.

Freer.

More peaceful.

A Precious Gift

And in the end, everything will be alright.

Far better than you could ever imagine.

Trust that.

Life is a precious gift.

To be alive as a human being is a precious gift.

Someone once said that the privilege of living a human life is like a single grain of sand being lifted out from all the grains of sand on a beach.

Make use of this opportunity.

It is precious.

And it will never come again.

Your Elke 😘