Who Can Stop Us? by Keith Partington

Yoga to me is a doorway. A doorway to perception and realization of truths that always seemed to me to be just out of reach, or that I thought might just be a figment of my imagination. I was lost before yoga, searching outside of myself for everything, looking for permission even. The first class I ever took, the first moment of that class, was a shock to my system. It shocked me into the present for the first time in my life. The conscious present.

The breath is what did it. The description of what to do with my breath, how to move it and channel it deliberately, drew me deep inside of myself where I suddenly felt I could see everything. That was the doorway. It led me into deep silence, into space that I could move within.

I felt I suddenly had access to inherent wisdom. I think the greatest sages are known as that because they’ve found enough space or silence to see, hear, and feel the wisdom that is within us all. To hear the hum of the universe and know their place in it. To know they don’t occupy a corner of it—they’ve come to know they are it. That’s yoga to me. That’s available to anyone who takes a seat and decides to look within.

That’s all of us, and that is power. There is strength in our shared commitment, but even more so if we’re aware of that strength. This awareness will clarify and distill our message, and Sonic Yoga—which is really you, the reader—will lead, influence and inspire from the heart of New York City.

I’m excited. See you at the studio.

Hari Om

Keith