11/12/2025
I often get asked ‘how do you practice the same thing again and again? Don’t you get bored?’
In Ashtanga you practice set sequences, following a counted vinyasa, with particular drishti (gaze) and breath. It doesn’t have to be dogmatic but the structure is there to build from, in a culture of choice and overstimulation perhaps simplicity is important.
A steady practice takes time and often things happen, we overcommit and can’t keep up, we push too hard and this doesn’t benefit us. Sādhanā needs to be sustainable for you and your life. It is a fine balance between effort and non-attachment for a steady beneficial Yoga practice to happen.
Yoga is a sacred act of showing up for yourself, it is not just doing the same postures again and again, it’s about stilling the mind and connecting with self.
So my answer is, no I don’t get bored. Every day is different, every day there is something to observe, to learn, to return to.
I’m not saying don’t do anything else, but I am suggesting if you’d like to dive a little deeper into Yoga and so far it feels like you are struggling to commit perhaps choose a practice (it doesn’t have to be ashtanga, it could be other āsana, meditation, Prāṇāyāma) and start by repeating it 1-3 times a week.
Commit to this for a long period of time, see what happens.
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