We'll begin this session with one of my favourite quotes from my teacher Richard Miller PhD on what yoga is and isn't (from a lecture on retreat in 2007). It focuses on a key aspect of our yogic path: releasing our need to figure out or fix, and instead learning to listen deeply (in Sanskrit, sravana)
We may arrive on our mat with pain or injuries we label 'bad' or want to 'fix'. In yoga, these are not seen as 'bad' parts to be refused, or overprotected, or figured out, or fixed, but rather as messengers to be deeply listened to.
Whenever we separate from ourselves or our truth, it leaves a residue of pain and disharmony which points back to our innate intelligence. There is no single cause to be figured out for anything because everything co-arises out of multiple interdependent factors both inside and outside ourselves.
What our practice does is deepen our ability to listen to our body's messages, and to the deeper call of intelligence within ourselves, so we can live in harmony with life.