Perfect offerings are failings of understanding

I love this Leonard Cohen lyric so much. This week when I came across it, I had such a visceral response.

It got me thinking about how much we lose when we get stuck in perfection. How much opportunity for growth and sharing and experience and life and joy.

It's sad really that we give up so much unwittingly because we are scared we might fail. 

But it also occurred to me that in yoga when we think that our aim is trying for a perfect pose we lose the very essence of yoga. Instead of being in the experience of the pose we are practicing an idea of what we think the pose should be or how it should be look from the outside.

Our internal world is vast and nourishing, when we practice yoga with care and intelligent action,  our practices takes us there.