Does the practice and embodiment of yoga make me a ‘yogi’? Do I fit myself into a mold of yoga? In other words does yoga work from inside out or the outside in?

The various teachers and teachings of yoga divide the lineage, or rather multiplies yoga into the tree of yoga, creating its different branches and lineages.

Each lineage is more like a combination of rituals, practices, techniques and guidelines towards the understanding of the self.

The lineage we follow helps us to understand how we perceive and process our immediate world. How this perception affects us and our relationships. Slowly and mindfully we begin to feel a shift in our outlook and we begin to live our ‘thinking’. As we live by this new way of perceiving we realize that the shift has happened, an embodiment of the yogic life of kindness and compassion becomes second nature or rather the true nature and the authentic self.