Guilty of getting injured in yoga practices?

Are you a super enthusiastic regular yoga practitioner, that you can't wait to jump on the mat and explore the possibilities of your physical body by trying out those seems to be "impossible" advanced poses? And realized that you gotten few injuries due to the practice?

I used to feel a little guilty whenever i got myself injured during the physical practice--- maybe a few falls that i knocked into the table, straining too much on one side of my shoulders or even getting a micro- muscles tear due to over stretching. No doubt i still feel  good and happy, i do aware that i did give some discomforts to the body.

Talk to any Ashtangi ( a name given to people who practice Ashtanga method), probably has got a whole list of injuries they had experience. The question is, why are they still in the practice then? Given this method of practices requires a lot more from the physical body, with the jumping forward/ backward, backward rolling.... 

Because the feeling of greatness prevails beyond the flesh and bones; a deep- core joy.

Just by attempting the Primary series of the Ashtanga method, there already has got a handful of more advanced poses that could possibly kill me --- setting challenges that requires the total external rotation of the hips that effects the knees and ankles, super deep twist that one can literally feel their stomach, liver and spleen shifting aside to make way, not forgetting the vinyasa that can really burn the shoulders..... just to name a few.

Yoga teachers are often get frame-up as a perfect picture by the students; that we should always be in a tip- top condition, never ever need to see a doctor or enter a hospital. They had lost sight of one thing: we are all human living on same piece of land, breathing the same air, drinking the from the same river.

I've been admitted to A&E in the middle of the night from an intensed pain due to UTI; been to Ayurvedic treatments for my micro-muscles tear in my hip; Chiropractic treatments for bad shoulders and hip... In fact, jokingly i thought... be grateful that the teachers have been through a whole turmoil in life, so that the students can learn how to manage them when they are facing the same situation.

Yoga is not all about perfecting the poses and life; practicing yoga is a skill... to manage whatever life has got to throw at you; its about making wise decisions of running away or facing an issue; is about making a choice of crying over a spilled milk or picking up the pieces( and not putting milk into glass bottle); its about experiencing life instead of rushing through it.

Yoga is not stagnant, its transcendental.

* check out for my second blogpost of injuries in yoga practices, coming soon!:)