Modern day yoga

 

Today I see many yoga teachers who are teaching through online and in person. They post lot of videos in Instagram with so many poses. There is an Indian couple (both husband and wife are yoga instructors) in Instagram who posted lot of videos and suddenly they were silent for few months. Finally she told she had depression and had to seek separate therapy from someone else. While I appreciate her honesty, I really wish that they could find the healing from yoga itself.  

What's the purpose of yoga in their lives? Why do they want to teach? 

Just keep doing lot of yoga asanas everyday is good but is that enough? Is it really addressing the needs of us? 

There are other kind of yoga teachers who read lot of books, watch lot of YouTube videos but with weak character and load their students with lot of information. 

Definitely students will benefit to some extent from both kind of teachers. 

My question is are these teachers opening the minds of students? Are they giving profound insights or enable the students to gain profoundness in their life? 

Are they enhancing the quality of life?  Students are able to take charge of their life or walk independently ?

The same goes with martial arts teachers as well. 

I'm really scared of people who takes away the simplicity of life. I like to keep things simple and basic fundamentals of life is always simple. 

While the tons of spiritual literature talks about enlightenment or liberation is the ultimate, what about day to day living?  How do we step up the quality of living ?

Not everyone can skip the life and just do yoga and get liberated directly. I don't think that is so easy like that. I think we need to live our life to the fullest possible. 

There is also other philosophy "World is maya and only God is real.". Definitely some great sages would have said that from their experience. Are we in a position to say that from our experience? 

And lot of spiritual seekers repeat it like a parrot and scared of worldly pleasures. I think this is not a living way of freedom. Discipline gives the freedom but the restricting onself & creating conflicts within, will never set us free. 

If there is God, I don't think God will leave us or punish us just because we enjoy our lives. 

I think through our better living with inner freedom, we can feel Him, appreciate Him and learn from Him.