Gemma Murphy Yoga

Many people think that yoga is all about touching your toes. Although yoga makes you flexible, the main goal of yoga is not about touching your toes. As Jigar Gor once said, “It’s what you learn on your way down.”

In reality, it can take years to be able to touch your toes or to do the splits. So over time, yoga begins to teach us things about ourselves.

It can be easy to think that our home yoga practice has to be a complete replication of what we practice in a public class. In reality, we can’t always expect that what we do at home is going to have the same feel, intensity, duration as when we practice yoga in a public space.