Today's class was full of beginners and my usual instructor took her time to go through and explain each of the asanas with them.
They didn't look like the fittest (nor the most flexible) bunch so I think they may have been really pushing themselves to do some of the moves.
As usual, we did some vinyasa (flow style yoga), then went into balancing (tree pose, dancer's pose and eagle pose) and finished off with some bridge pose and the plough pose. As we cooled down with some supine twists, the instructor said: "There is a quote by Buddha. He says that Pain is inevitable in life, but suffering is optional".
Although she was saying this in relation to pulling yoga poses and advising the beginners not to do anything that feels uncomfortable, I thought how true this is in the attitude we have.
The world is how we choose to see it...
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