33voices, interviews Baron Baptiste, founder of Baptiste Yoga.
Being The Power
Something magical happens in that moment when your mind and body are in complete synchronicity – it’s a euphoria like no other because for that brief glimpse, you know that everything that’s happening is exactly what’s meant to happen. Your connection to the world shifts, and suddenly you make sense of what Rumi meant when he said that, ‘your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built“.
There’s no denying that life can be a rough terrain, but how we navigate it always comes down to a personal choice, or perhaps a yoga mat. Although the practice of yoga is somewhat new to me, its heritage is something that I’ve contemplated for a long time. Baron Baptiste grew up with a yoga mat, and today he is recognized as one of the wisest instructors on the planet – In 15 minutes with him, I certainly didn’t learn how to do the warrior pose, but I did get a glimpse of what most of us are missing in life. Consider this ——-