Satya

The truth. The truth for you every day as well as throughout your life. Your sva-dharma or limitations for any length of time. Your straight-up dharma is, to me, more of the life-long path. Work within your sva-darma or limitations for today or for this week. In a posture as "mainstream" as trikonasana (triangle pose), I always have to honor my truth and I don't really get too deep in this posture. I attempt in teaching to help practitioners to see that they may not have to go so deep to feel the stretch in the back of the front leg and the twist in the torso. People see trikonasana with hands at the ankle or on the floor and want to mimic the posture as opposed to working with the posture to stretch, lengthen and strengthen. It's all good, unless of course you want to continually build and improve upon your base knowledge of yoga, both body and mind.

Take it slow. Focus on alignment. Feel.

And have fun!!