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Waldshut (Germany), 1977.

Being. The way back to you

(edited by Diana), is the model's new book, it is an entry manual in yoga, the discipline to which the model has dedicated her professional career .

They took me to yoga in my early twenties, but I guess the ironic attitude got the better of me and that didn't go well. Yoga bears its labels, its stigmata: To do yoga I have to be in a special way.

It is not like that: we do not have to be in a special way at the beginning because that way of being special is the consequence, not the beginning.

Yoga is a technique that in its maximum expression is very elevated, but all of us, even the most expert, have started with small steps, we have strayed from the path, we have become angry and frustrated.

But we have returned. And the irony?

How do you get rid of it? It is very good to laugh at yourself. Yoga does not always have to be super serious and transcendental. Yoga can be fun and, in fact, one of the teachings we gain is the ability to see ourselves with humor.

The challenge is that humor does not stop us, that it is part of a broader loving gaze, but it is true that yoga is expressed with a solemn language, almost liturgical.

Why

Does

yoga

speak strange

? Because what seems to be a physical practice goes far beyond the mat.

We started practicing yoga and immediately we considered our habits: how we eat, how we relate.

I estimate that half of my friends do yoga and the other half go to boxing gyms and I think for the same reasons, I believe that everyone can find something in yoga, but I know that not all vital moments need the yoga.

Yoga is arrived at in moments of crisis.

An injury, a moment of stress, a moment of not finding satisfaction ... We did not start in a time of fulfillment.

At that moment of crisis you can also respond by punching a bag or doing a zumba or running or climbing the mountain.

They all seem to me to be healthy reactions. Can you synthesize what the people who go to your study are looking for? Connection.

Connection with other people and with themselves. How do you refer to them?

Are they clients, practitioners, patients ...? We are all students, me too, and we are like explorers who do not settle for what they tell us that life is.

The house, the partner, the car ... It unites us to believe that being is something more. So this is also a form of nonconformity and rebellion. There is a part of nonconformity that expresses a curiosity and a connection with something else that is not there. outside but inside. And before yoga, what did he do with that instinct of nonconformity? He bought a lot of clothes.

Absurd amounts. He traveled nonstop.

I looked for it in my partners.

I lived with a restlessness, a need always to have more ... Then I understood that it was about letting go, not having and everything changed. Does the word happiness seem relevant to you?

Or is it a bit of a silly trompe l'oeil? Happiness, that thing about living in a constant state of happiness, seems like a utopia to me.

There may be people who are capable of living like this, but I believe that to value happiness you have to know its absence and you have to live both things with intensity.

I prefer to aspire to satisfaction and coherence with some moments of happiness.

The last question

I ask you because it seems that happiness is today a very pressing and unsympathetic industry.

There is a huge offer in which we have to learn to discern.

I would tell him that you find happiness and that you also believe it. We all choose to be in the complaint sometimes ... And then it turns out that happiness is within reach.

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