This weeks prompt is What is the role of the body? How is the body approached and how is the body seen as a vehicle for experience of the divine?
In my yoga class that I regularly attend is that the role of your body is to focus on your mental state and your breathing. Basically just focusing on your body itself. My instructor walks around reminding us that we can do this, don't sell yourself short. You can do this just focus on this position and breathing and you will succeed. She will walk around and talk about how our body is our temple. We need to cherish our bodies. We should push our bodies to the limit that out brains think that we can handle and go beyond that.
pushing our body to the limit and respecting it like a temple seem at cross purposes. No?
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