Yoga North recently offered a “Pigs Eat Wolves” intensive. Our group of 11 used the story of the 3 Little Pigs to talk about the journey of our lives. Mother Pig represented the story we are told by our media, teachers, family of origin, etc. The Wolf represented all the things and people we are told are bad, unimportant, or wrong. The 3 little pigs who built their house of straw, sticks, and bricks were a look at how each of us maneuvers our way through the stories that have been told to us.
Our goal in the study was to lead an “examined life”, in other words to discover hidden places in our lives and beliefs where we act habitually instead of consciously. Our time together was a reminder, once again, that yoga is a radical departure from our western thinking that wants to analyze, fix, and change things. Yoga tells us that our only task is to see what is. Or, as Yogiraj Achala puts it, “to learn to see what we see and to learn to see what we don’t see.”
It is the task of our life journey, yoga tells us, to bring everything into conscious awareness.
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