Yoga 101 Be On High Alert

About This Class

In this short but impactful talk, Bryan Kest issues a candid warning to yoga practitioners: be on high alert that you aren't dragging harmful mental habits — judgmentalness, criticalness, competitiveness, and reactiveness — into your yoga practice. He argues that simply doing yoga is not inherently beneficial if you're simultaneously reinforcing the same toxic mental patterns that produce stress in everyday life. The session is a mindfulness-oriented reminder that the quality of your inner attitude during practice matters as much as the physical postures themselves, and that unconscious indulgence in these qualities can actually deepen harm rather than promote well-being.