Confessions of a yoga teacher, Part 1: The real yoga

I love yoga but I don’t love the yoga image, the squeaky clean yogi whose practice of yoga has led to a more highly evolved state of being than your average mortal.

There is a misconception that to be dedicated to yoga, to be a 'yogi', you need to live a perfect, calm and healthy life.

That your flaws are your weaknesses, that you should be all virtue and no vice, and that your practice of yoga is about 'cleaning up your act' and smoothing out all your nasty imperfections.