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# Is yoga self improvement ❓
- URL: https://www.restrelaxrevive.co.uk/is-yoga-self-improvement/
- Published: 2025-12-12T18:47:05.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-02T13:17:40.000Z
- Description: Will yoga improve our life when we practice it and will any improvement extend beyond the mat and chair into our family life, our worklife and all those roles that we live.
- Author: Linda Johnrose
- Tags: Map 3: Align, Koshas, Soul Musings

Hmm, now there is a question.

Yoga definitely helps us to improve, there is no denying that after any session we can feel that we have done something to 

> Improve our mood

> Improve our sleep

> Improve our emotional balance

> Improve our flexibilty - physical and mental

> Improve our physical health

> Improve our mental well-being

> You get the picture?

**So, yes,** 

Yoga helps us to improve ourself

## BUT

ah, there's always a but!

I tell my students that yoga is actually 

> Self realisation 

> Self awareness

Through our yoga practice we become more aware

Then through that awareness we naturally make improvements

We become aware of the real self, and through that awareness true self improvement and growth occurs

We become what and who we truly are, what we were made to be

### and that's REAL self improvement

As we get to know ourselves as part of the Divine, the Universal Spirit, the Cosmic Consciousness, God (or however you feel comfortable naming that which we all come from)

We become

> Real

> Authentic

> Balanced

(not sure about that GOD word? Check out the blog [What/who is God?](https://www.restrelaxrevive.co.uk/what-who-is-god/))

## So is it Self Improvement?

and if so how can Yoga help?

Through yoga practices we become more Self aware 

We gain awareness without expectation or criticism

As we practice postures, breathing and/or meditation we learn to observe

> The body, the breath, the mind, the emotions

We notice what works, what doesn't

How we feel before, after and during certain things

What changes within us as we do a particular practice

Which [styles of yoga](https://www.restrelaxrevive.co.uk/what-is-yoga/) suit us and which don't

It starts with the physical - that feeling of needing a forward bend to release the spine after a deep backbend

**but**

as we are more than just a physical body, all of our layers are affected - keep an eye out for the blog on *KOSHAS* for more about those layers that make us human 

As we practice a side bend or forward bend we learn

> What we need to put us back in balance

Without putting ourself down, we learn from a mistake and grow - overstretching physically brings definite muscle awareness!

This also happens in meditation practice and studying the texts of yogic philosophy

Our practice on the mat and on the chair is our space to learn and grow

and if we make a mistake we get to 

> Keep the lesson from the mistake but not the memory

Like I say in class, awareness without expectation or criticism and it extends beyond the mat and chair into our family life, our worklife and all those roles that we live.

## Have you started yet?

How is your Self feeling, physically. mentally, emotionally?

Tell me in the comments, or drop me a message, I would love to know any awareness you found on the mat, on the chair or just sat with a brew.