The practice of yoga invites us to evaluate those things in our lives that are necessary and to discard the things that aren't necessary. In a pose, this means looking for areas that are holding onto unnecessary tension, or releasing what doesn't need to be working at that moment, letting go of the "monkey mind" and focusing on where we are right now. Where we first learn this in the practice of asana...
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