Yoga 101 Don’t Bring Your Shit Into Yoga And Turn Yoga Into Shit

About This Class

In this short but potent one-minute talk, Bryan Kest issues a sharp reminder that yoga can be undermined from within. He warns students to stay on "high alert awareness" so they don't carry destructive mental habits — judgmentalness, criticalness, competitiveness, and reactiveness — into their practice. His core argument is that if you engage in those poisonous mental qualities while doing yoga, you are actually reinforcing the very patterns that harm you, effectively turning a beneficial practice into something counterproductive. There are no physical poses or movement sequences; this is a pure mindfulness and philosophy snippet designed to reframe how practitioners approach every class they take.