20/10/2025
If I had a penny for every time someone told me they weren’t flexible enough to do yoga. . . I’d have about 50p, 🤣 but you catch my drift.
Yes, the asanas (poses) increase flexibility, and yes, if you are flexible you can practice more ‘advanced’ poses (for want of a better word), but you do not have to be flexible to practice yoga.
The way that yoga is represented in the West these days isn’t really a true depiction of yoga. For starters, asana is just ONE of EIGHT limbs of yoga, so the physical practice that is most commonly depicted on social media, is only one aspect of this huge and ancient practice 🧘♀️
Yoga is a way of life; it is a guide, a path, a mirror, a vital tool to transform your awareness and expand your consciousness; a teacher that will help you to see what this life really is - see the all encompassing divinity in everything 💚
The physical practice is popular because it’s so accessible and it’s a totally valid way to practice, but when I hear people say ‘I’m not flexible enough’ it genuinely makes me sad. No one should ever feel like they are ‘not enough’, whether that’s physically, intellectually or emotionally.
Yoga helps you to realise that YOU ARE ALWAYS ENOUGH, no matter how flexible you are (or not). So if you’re worried you’re not flexible enough for yoga, stop! Sign up, join in, and feel welcome, in whatever place you are coming from 💚🙏
