# @pujiwoo on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CS0yz57jaCm
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/61943887-pujiwoo-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-08-21T05:35:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Puja Thea Amin (@pujiwoo) — https://gondola.cc/pujiwoo

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If you’re not nurturing all #8limbsofyoga in your practice, you’re doing it all wrong!
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Lately, I’ve been really drawn to my #pranayama and #dhyana practices as opposed to the super hardcore #vinyasa that I’m used to. If I’m being totally honest - for years, I used my physical practice and appearance as a distraction from doing the real work. The messy stuff that you can’t just sweat out - the internal, uncomfortable shit that we all have to sit with and sort through at some point. Believe me when I say that although Instagram fools you in thinking that our asana practices are the hardest of work, it’s not. Asana is tangible - you can see it, feel it, touch it. 
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A silly example I like to use is if your house was haunted and there was a ghost you could physically see and visualize, it would be much easier to escape and run from it and know where it was lurking. If you can’t see the ghost, you’re fucked my friend! You most likely have to cast some spells to get the thing to reveal itself and then cleanse the shit out of your house. I guess meditation is kind of like that. LOL
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Trust me, all of the 8 limbs are useful to us at various points in time depending on what we’re going through in life, which is why they’re taught to us as limbs and not stages or steps, because you see, they grow together like the branches of a tree. 
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Many of us use #asana as the gateway to connect to ourselves and the world at a deeper level, but if you’re stopping at asana on your mat and it doesn’t somehow permeate into the rest of your life #OffTheMat you’ve barely scratched the surface if at all. 
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Now be gone ghosts! Go meditate and confront your demons. We (you mostly) will all be better off for it. 
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#HappyWeekend y’all!

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vinyasa, dhyana, offthemat, happyweekend, 8limbsofyoga, pranayama, asana

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