Final Write Up
When I chose Yoga: East meets West as one of my classes, I did not know how misinformed I was in regards to yoga. If I am being completely honest, I chose the class in the beginning for physical purposes. I expected to have yoga practices every time the class met along with the extra practice that was required of us. My main goal, in the beginning, coming out of this class was to be more flexible than when I first started. However, after all of the information I have learned in class, I realized that yoga is more than what Western practices make it out to be. After our class lessons, yoga in the East compared to the West is quite different in the purpose aspect. Many Westerns sell yoga as a physical practice without having known the origins and as a commodity. In the East, yoga's purpose is to lead one closer to enlightenment and further away from their daily sufferings. I am not saying that yoga in the East cannot be sold as a commodity, but this action is usually seen