Habits and Patterns of Behavior

This basic idea comes from my experience of the teachings of T. K. V. Desikachar.

So if Yoga is largely about awareness and habits are actions and patterns of behavior that we do without awareness then a person has to work hard to keep his/her yoga practice a few steps ahead of his/her habits. As creatures of habit we tend to fall into unconscious tendencies of thought, movement and action in our practice and when this happens it is not all that likely that there will be the high degree of self reflective awareness necessary to consider what we are doing a Yoga practice.