I see each yoga class as a unique journey leading to some new place, a new self. When the teacher starts the trip, every other person chooses whether to join it or not. You can actually feel if it is right for you at this moment.
If you finally choose to go through the journey, there comes another choice: either you are being aware during the whole class and catching an immense spectrum of thoughts or emotions revealing, feeling your body in it's each cell. Or you are somewhere completely else not even suspecting of what is going on inside. This is always a choice.
Yes the idea of discipline is important, but the possibility of choice gives us freedom in life. Many people will finally choose to do nothing, not to practice, not to work, not to go for realization of a dream, and it's ok, it's a choice which we do. Knowledge can not come forcefully, we are free to choose knowledge and action, also we are free to choose ignorance and stagnation.
The same way we are free to choose one yoga class journey and we are free to choose the whole yoga path. We are free to choose nothing of those two.
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