Lines of Inquiry

You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
(full text available here)

I am trying to come up with a yogi analogy for "I'm a poet and I just don't know it," in reference to Rilke.
And just like that, this blog exists as an exercise in what many would perceive as futility- trying to answer unanswerable questions. Here are some of the things I wonder about, and would like to continue wondering about in text and on the internet:

• How can I, a non-skinny, proudly non-serene, 20-something American woman live and embody yoga without giving up all those things that make me ME?
• What does it mean to do yoga in New York, in the 21st century? What can we find in our lives and popular culture that can inform the practice?
• What does a "perfect" asana practice or class consist of, for me or anyone else, and can it be found in an actual class? How do the changes in our lives reflect in changing needs for yoga, on an individual and cultural level?