This Yoga Life

By Paige Greenfield

One woman and her practice

Her attitude adjustment
The way that yoga has taught me to work methodically on a difficult pose also provides the skills to attack a sketchy slope. If you just hurl yourself at it, chances are good that you might get hurt. But if I breathe and focus on what specific muscles are doing, I begin to deconstruct what is going on. That enables me to have more control, which makes me more confident to go for ski runs that I might not otherwise attempt.

Her words of wisdom
We all have wants. Wanting to weigh 5 pounds less. Wanting a new car. I think that right now my practice is helping me really take stock and really cherish and enjoy what I have. That’s the great thing about yoga. When you first start, it’s all about the poses and the stretching and the physical stuff, but then it deepens. Now it affects me in a much deeper way, and it has spread through my life.

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