Remember feeling like you were the "wrong type" for Yoga? Too tight, too weak, too something? Jim Kallett's story will completely shift how you see your challenges.

"My biggest challenge was the discomfort. There's two types of people—either born in a steel factory in Sheffield or a noodle factory in Milano. You're strong and tight, always in pain, with mental strength and determination. Or you're like a noodle—flexible but can't hold postures, mind all over the place, no connection between brain and muscles."

Here's the profound realization: "The idea of Yoga is to bring you into balance. Use your strength until you become flexible, or your flexibility until strength increases until they balance."

Jim's 30-year journey reveals the deepest teaching: "I can't think of more than a three-month period where I was pain-free. So I'm always in pain. But I no longer react to it. It took 20 years to get to that point."

The breakthrough insight: "Pain is sensation—your body talking to your brain. It's not the pain, it's how you react to it. That's what pain really is. The reaction to the sensation." This is pratyahara—withdrawal of the senses, where sensation exists but has no effect.

"For teaching, the biggest challenge is dealing with resistance. When you're a Yoga teacher, you have tremendous responsibility. Anyone who comes into that room, you have to care about. Everyone is equal. You can't discriminate. But not everyone will like that."

The energy paradox every teacher knows: "Practice energizes me. Teaching exhausts me. I have to practice to regain energy to teach. That's why anyone who teaches this Yoga has to practice it."

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