Yoga means to “yoke” or “to join together and make whole.” (It comes from the Sanskrit root yuj, which means “to join or unite.”) That doesn’t mean you corral the “bad” parts of yourself to make sure they don’t mess things up for the “good” parts. To join together and make whole is to welcome and begin to accept all aspects of yourself, to notice the good, the not-so-good, and the truly cringeworthy. Yoking also means connecting your individual soul with the Divine, Cosmic Consciousness, God, or whatever else you call this transcendent state of awareness.
