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One of the wonderful things about any yoga practice is that you can start where you are. I have been on and off my yoga mat for the last decade or more. It may seem that I can only call myself a sometimes (and fledgling) yogini though yoga in general is on my mind every day and I have other daily practices that follow the eight limbs such as breath work, mantra, and so on. As one of my teachers has relayed, "The body does not lie." I have a lot of tight muscles, imbalances, and to be fair, some extra parts that won't cooperate with me so well. All of these things get in the way of meditation, causing discomfort and agitation. Really, it gets in the way of living . I mean, how much easier would my pedestrian life be if my hips and calves were hydrated and limber? I would also have much more energy. I often give fairly simple yoga exercises to my massage therapy clients as homework. Quite a few clients have begun implementing their homework and asking for more. I h