It does not matter how many times I do surya namaskar

Today was the first session for Jha sir’s Vihangam Vidya Yoga. It goes on for the next 10 days. Prerna had registered for it. We were listening to the first session together.

Sometime in the middle of the session, Jha sir talked about people counting the number of surya namaskars they do. He said once you are surya, it does not matter how many surya namaskars you do.

When I started with yoga, I don’t know how, but I started counting in my head when doing certain asanas. I would count and try to best the count the next time around. So during pranayama, I would count while I breathed out. It was I guess a good way of tracking progress. I counted the number of times I would do surya namaskar. I would count and count and count and count.

I got better eventually. Even when I wasn’t where I am now, with yoga I would find my mind drifting deeper some times.

Yoga is practice. This practice hopefully lets one get closer to one self, one’s true self.

With time, the counting began ingrained into how I did things. Now I try not to. And still I drift back into the counting.

The counting does not matter. How many times or for how long I can exhale, does not matter. Once I’m surya, it does not matter how many times I do surya namaskar. Till then, we practice.