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When body practices become another form of self-improvement pressure

I started yoga to feel better in my body but now I am obsessed with advanced poses and I feel worse about myself than before.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The ego's achievement orientation can co-opt even practices designed to develop embodied presence and self-acceptance.

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