Progress is inevitable

The practice is like kids growing in front of you, you don't see the progress but it happens. You need milestones.

Even if we should just enjoy the practice without any attachment to progress, for me it is a great source of motivation and pleasure to see that actually there is some progress. Of course sometimes we loose it, and have to start over again.

The funny thing is that you progress when you don't expect it; during a laziness break, during easy practices, suddenly and surprisingly. You stop wanting it and you get it.

Of course, growing kids don't get smaller...

The responsibility of daily practice

Or should I say "practice", for short?

That's the great wisdom of mysore style practice of ashtanga yoga; the complete responsibility of the practice lies within the individual herself. The teacher gives you only what you want to take.

Learning comes entirely from the student. There is no teaching, only learning.

I often apply this approach to other things in life, where we are pushed into doing things that we don't really want to do, or wouldn't know how to do, or don't know what that thing does to us.

Sometimes I try to push other people into doing what I want them to do. I try to remember that they will not learn anything that they don't want to learn, and no teaching can take place unless they want to learn. And then they will.