A good friend and fellow yoga trainee attended the Yoga Journal conference in San Francisco last month and had a very funny, ironic (?) story about another attendee who appeared to be inebriated at 3:45 in the afternoon!
And now I've discovered that Yoga Journal produces small videos and this one is a treat - On Romance, Love and Yoga. YJ interviews Michael Franti, Scott Blossom, Tias and Surya Little, Rod Stryker and Gary Kraftsow. Cassandra Fox conducted these interviews at that YJ conference last month (and no one seems drunk on anything other than yoga - check out the first guy).
I found Rod Stryker and Gary Krafsow (who come at the end of the 8 minute video) the most helpful with constructive thoughts and perceptions.
Stryker describes the yogi who have partners who - egads! - don't practice yoga or don't practice as much or is not completely in synch - and who seem bothered by this. He dismisses that, suggests that those fixated on our partners' practices, or lack thereof, let that go. He urges us to be kind and be respectful to our beloved.
Kraftsow points out that we have to be fulfilled first and not look for fulfillment in the other. Yoga itself "says you have to do yoga for yourself no one can do it for you. Same lesson is true about successful, loving, romantic and passionate relationships...look for your own inner fulfillment and then share that with another."
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