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How our yoga practice can help us to live a more authentic and down-to-earth life, one rich with humility. By Mellara Gold

In a world filled with inequality, exploitation, and injustice it’s hard to imagine being humble on the top of our list as a collective.

If our ancestors were alive today perhaps they might have this wish for us. A simple yet powerful intention of accessing our most humble selves — and if practiced with heart and soul — could change everything.

Having a consistent yoga practice we are asked to look into the very mundane of our lives and ‘become the sacred’ — in the ordinary of folding clothes, getting legs up the wall for a few minutes (viparita karani), or cooking a healthy meal for ourselves and loved ones.

In being humble, we enter into a state of service and it becomes an extraordinary experience.

And it is being of service to humanity that is at the heart of what yoga is really all about.

When we practice yoga, whether we are on or off of the mat, we are essentially remembering who we are. Our pure human kindness radiates and a humble heart takes centre stage. The more we can give back and nurture ourselves throughout our day, and not just on the mat — that’s what it’s all about.

Our new mantra becomes: ‘All of life is a yoga class’.

Why does it sometimes feel like our yoga is getting harder, the more we practice on the mat? It’s because we are learning about ourselves says long time yoga teacher, student and writer Mellara. To read more from this article just click on the photo 'Does Our Yoga Practice Ever Get Easier?'