{"id":2648,"date":"2026-06-27T09:33:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:33:49","slug":"the-true-essence-of-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/the-true-essence-of-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Essence of Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ask someone what yoga is today, and they will almost certainly describe a physical practice\u2014stretching, poses, breathwork at most. Every day, millions of people gather at places called \u201cyoga studios\u201d to do exactly this, though these studios are, for all practical purposes, gyms. You might expect, then, that the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali would be dense with instruction on physical postures. Patanjali\u2019s name is inescapable in yoga culture\u2014walk into any studio, and you will hear it eventually, usually attached to some version of the assurance that the school\u2019s lineage is ancient, unbroken, traceable in a straight line back to him.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask someone what yoga is today, and they will almost certainly describe a physical practice\u2014stretching, poses, breathwork at most. Every day, millions of people gather at places called \u201cyoga studios\u201d to do exactly this, though these studios are, for all practical purposes, gyms. You might expect, then, that the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"The True Essence of Yoga - Adrian Kezele","description":"Ask someone what yoga is today, and they will almost certainly describe a physical practice\u2014stretching, poses, breathwork at most. Every day, millions of people"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}