Training nameless goal Part 2- Total 360 Yoga Blog November 2026

Training nameless goal Part 2- Total 360 Yoga Blog November 2026

As you start in yoga, you make a goal.  I want to make it through a 90-minute hot yoga class, or I want to learn the moves.  These are common goals. The expectations and the weight of these goals can drown the benefit and true nature of yoga.  Welcome to the November blog of 2026 for Total 360 Yoga.

Society has individuals profoundly set up for goals. There are goals every year set at work, in school, or in martial arts.  The suffering we endure, whether physical or spiritual, mounts as we fail to meet our or societal expectations.  

Yoga instructors all started with “I want this to be the goal of the class today.”  We learned we needed a peak pose and should be up walking around at least 15 % of the time.  These are all important in teaching classes.  If you watch a new yoga instructor, they seem clunky or robotic as they try to remember what they created or stay on track with the goal.  What if we were to train the nameless goal in yoga?  Whether it’s in individual practice or teaching. 

The idea of impermanence, non-attachment, non-judgment, and compassion guides us down this path.  Yes, there should be an agenda or framework for the class.  As a business, you want to be successful, so you want to build your classes.  Create the goals, write them down, and let them go.  

Train around the idea that you can bend and move in any direction based on what you see in the class. Train around the idea that you can bend and move in any direction based on how your body is responding during your personal practice.  A bicycle tire has a center, usually where it is attached to the bike.  This center is where we teach, train, and practice.  The spokes spread from the center with tools like pranayama, yoga nidra, meditation, mindfulness, somatic healing, yoga therapy, and many more.  They are all connected, and should be to our center.  If we allow those lines to be present within us, finding what is needed will present itself.  When you train and practice, any goal can be met; maybe you add a little more yoga nidra to help deal with anxiety.  Maybe we add mindfulness for reframing.  

Release the pressure of expectations and be present in what is occurring within you.  Feelings, sensations, and emotions arise and are met by what we do in the present.  Training nameless goal.  You meet the moment where it is and work it.  

I have had many classes where I think I have the best design of a class, and through reading the room, I realize this is not what is needed. I shift using the spokes on the wheel and move where it needs to be.  In Part 1, the trainer in me was screaming, but we have to have goals to show people how we are doing.   I never said don’t make goals; write them down and pull them out, review them, and see how they resonate now.   You may find that you already met your goal of training nameless goal.  Namaste.