Bag-a-vad Gita

I started Yoga Teacher Training two weeks ago. It comes with a warning label: Mind expansion, deep introspection, surprising physical flexibility and strength, and an uncanny knack for reintroducing ghosts from the past. The typical student might experience something akin to the plot of The Changling, where the spirit of the past comes to haunt the present, and rectification can only happen now. Each student has their own journey, and I think most who find themselves ready for this trip have come to a brink or edge through some natural, transpersonal, mind-body shift. Although the students, as a group, are entirely compassionate and supporting to their fellow struggling yogis, the thickest, spongiest of safety nets cannot keep your Self from undermining your Self. Old ghosts and fears stop you in you tracks, and we're encouraged to not step around them, but to move through them, as the only real means to coming to embracing the fear, doubt, apprehension, and curses that lock us into our limits.