Yoga Wisdom

The other night while practising yoga, the instructor came over to me to help me move into the position a little more thoroughly. I was intensely  fighting with the position. He shook my arm and coaxed: "Relax, relax". He obviously didn't know whom he was addressing. After a few futile attempts, he said "Getting this position will not make you a good person." It wasn't a rebuke but a reminder - there is nothing to get in yoga.  Later he said to another in the class "How you do anything is how you do everything." Sounded kind of Buddhist to me. It's message remained powerful as I have ruminated on these two thoughts considering their truth. I hope this last gem isn't entirely true. I do fail so often at the poses (and the metaphor is not lost on me either).  I do so think that if I just succeed (in any/every/all things) that I will arrive at some currently unattainable stature where people will seek my company wanting little snippets of my humour, sagesse, and humanity. While I do fail a lot, I also get up and try again a lot. I'm not dead yet as I've said before. And besides was a person's body really meant to contort like that really?