Yoga and Alignment are the two side of same coinwhile the ego is the result of having just one. It can be an alignment of body, breath and mind or an alignment of conciousness with muscular movement done during a yoga practice.
Alignments are required to feel the real effect and essence of a yoga posture. A yoga posture that is not well adjusted and lack aligment among the muscles will loose the power to give complete benefits, whereas an aligned asana can give mental soothing and a deep relaxing state immediately. Yoga alignment is a precise way in which the body stay in any posture without injuring and reaping the benefits of effort. Yoga have described asanas as an effortless practice.
It can be true but for a beginner in the starting few weeks can be quite strong as the muscles start re-adjusting themselves. In the style of Ashtanga Viniyasa these alignments are very required as the chances of injuries are quite high due to dynamic flows. If the student is not refined with alignment he could lead to a fatal injury as I have few students in my Iyengar classes those have stopped Ashtanga because of incompetence guidance that cause more harm than benefits.
I personally believe being as an Indian and born in Rishikesh with my decades of studies in Swami Omkarananda school, that yoga is not a race neither a passive attitude it is an intrument to design our life according to our uniques needs. Buddha has marked that each man is unique, so practice in yoga and the way to approach is also unique. It can not be a mass market supply, it has to be unique. Therefore alignment is required in life and in practice.
In ashtanga most of students are in race to finish a destination of six series, without perfecting the prior one. It has become the center of ego satisfaction. A practitioner tells other one he is in third series and other try to reach 4 series soon. The real sense of Spiritualism and magic of journey have lost. And finaly after few years they are just Gymanst with an Ego of an yogi.
Therefore when you get aligned within yourself and your body and mind get united with cosmic flow of breath the ego drops. Ego is always relative, it needs always comparison, if some Ashtanga practitioner says that Iyengar or Hatha id useless or vice versa, it just a snob with a illusionary ego.
For Indians yoga is yoga, since last 10,000 years, they didnt differentiate with practice but in west it has been differentiated. Yoga can be done for thousand reasons and they are unique for each one of us, but journey and spirit is same.
Therefore we need a deconditioned path with new light but with original eyes where we can allign and drop the barrier of Ego towards the happiness.
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