Kacie S
October 25, 2017 15:34
Bikram yoga Corvallis is a wonderful place to develop strength, flexibility and most importantly breath control. By controlling the breath, you are able to control the movements of the body and the mind. Show up as much as you can to that (yes carpeted room so that students do not slip on sweat and cause injury) hot room and you will quickly see the benefits to body and mind.
Instructors are knowledgable, encouraging, humorous and ruthless in a loving way. They want to see students succeed. Yes, you are here to work hard and defeat everything that you have told yourself that you are incapable of. Become a productive, competent, confident and HAPPY human being by exploring your perceived limitations and realizing that they were only a deception in a false reality.
There is no easy way, no quick fix. The right way is most often the long and difficult way...but worth it.
Reality: the room is hot, people are sweaty, the smell of people working hard is present yet bearable, teachers will tell you the truth and you will absolutely have to face yourself, literally and figuratively. If self realization and truth are what you are after, come and work. Forget the personalities that you can't tolerate and the carpet that you may not like and focus only on one thing. The most important thing. You. Look at yourself in the mirror, every inch of yourself. Look deeper each time you wish to look away. You will find beauty rather than flaw and strength rather than weakness. Don't give up on your own mind. Ths is all that we have to thrive on. Your volition, if you so choose is there to push you beyond what you thought possible.
After 8 years in that room I can honestly say that without yoga, I would not have survived myself. Please come with an open mind and try to learn as much as you can. A weak mind is easily disturbed or distracted. This is the precise reason why everyone should at the very least give a 100 % honest effort. I can and have come up with a list of excuses to not attend class pages long. But absolutely NOTHING supercedes my want/ need to fully understand the truth and reality of my being.