I may have already been doing yoga for years and I just had no idea. As a dancer, I am no stranger to very intense strengthening and flexibility training. But who was going to tell me that my à la seconde split stretches were actually a Parivrtta Janu Sirsasana pose? Now, implying that holding these poses meant I had been practising yoga was just an exaggeration because now I realize yoga is way more than that.
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