{"id":19209,"date":"2020-02-13T09:51:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T07:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/?p=19209"},"modified":"2020-03-01T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T09:10:25","slug":"doing-yoga-versus-being-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/blog\/doing-yoga-versus-being-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing yoga versus Being Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The essence of an Odaka Yoga practice coincides with this thought; <strong>yoga is a means to an end and not the end<\/strong>. Extraordinary power is enclosed in the present moment; one needs to transform \u201c<strong>doing yoga\u201d into \u201cbeing yoga.<\/strong>\u201d Only in this way, can yoga become an instrument that sharpens the mind and allows one to see reality clearly. On the mat we must answer the question: \u201c<strong>what defines the present moment?<\/strong>\u201d By grounding our consciousness directly into action, completely in the present, at every point of existence, we can prepare ourselves until no problem and no suffering can settle within us. If through yoga we are able to find our physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social balance, then body, mind, heart and spirit will establish a complete, profound and <strong>lavish happiness<\/strong> on every level. Obstacles, challenges and difficulties do not appear as negative events, but simply as experiences for our <strong>growth and evolution.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The essence of an Odaka Yoga practice coincides with this thought; yoga is a means to an end and not the end. Extraordinary power is enclosed in the present moment; one needs to transform \u201cdoing yoga\u201d into \u201cbeing yoga.\u201d Only in this way, can yoga become an instrument that sharpens the mind and allows one  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[667],"class_list":["post-19209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-odakayoga-francescacassia-robertomilletti-livecentered-beyoubetterself-yogaprinciples-beinspired"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19214,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19209\/revisions\/19214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odakayoga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}