In Ganga’s opening chapter of Yoga Beyond Belief, Standing on the Shoulders of the Past, we look at an excerpt from the section entitled: Freedom From the Known. We hope it will provide supportive insight as you investigate an asana.

“An insatiable appetite and energy for learning and a fresh inquiring mind are among life’s greatest assets. This is why the concept of beginner’s mind has been emphasized in the East. When we come to learning as a beginner, we are open, questioning, looking. When we approach a subject as an expert, we are more closed and fixed in the accumulated information we have gathered, in the past experiences we have had. When we are an expert, or experienced, when we know something, even a yoga posture, we tend to approach it mechanically from the past. We lose the freedom of discovery, the freedom of being fresh and new.”