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A Hero’s Journey Mega-Flow!

June 1, 2018 by Fandom Yoga Leave a Comment

Our favorite heroes’ stories follow a common pattern – as do our lives, really! Joseph Conrad defined 12 steps in this pattern as the Hero’s Journey, outlining how every hero starts out in a dull, not-quite-right beginning, gradually gains allies and enemies and goes through ordeals, and finally emerges changed at the end. It rings true, I think, because in a simpler way our lives are like that too. As Josh Groban so wisely puts it in “Crazy Ex Girlfriend,” “Life is a gradual series of revelations that occur over a period of time.”

Our yoga practice can illuminate that journey, helping us to understand what is happening to us. In the process, it can also mirror it… you start with the need for yoga, then you join a class and make friends and advance, only to encounter road blocks in what you can do. But by bringing our intentions back to yoga’s heart, we can rise above that and experience our own sort of revelation-resurrection. You “level up,” over and over, through processes that are sometimes easy, sometimes difficult, but always strengthening.

Here is the Hero’s Journey abbreviated into 9 steps in a yoga practice as well as the fandoms of Star Wars, the Labyrinth, Harry Potter, Clueless, and Doctor Who.

 

 

 

 

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Wondering what this has to do with yoga? Yoga means “to join” – and here I join together ideas from different fandoms of many kinds, including, of course, yoga!

Check out where yoga can take you. Or how you could start yoga with a body that might betray your love of sitting, reading, and watching? Try why yoga is great for geeks or the best benefits of yoga that aren’t exercise. How about where to start? Read this guide to the basic yoga poses for beginners.

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