A Fork in the Road: "Doing to" or "Being with"?

The pace of Yoga therapy's adaptation and acceptance into our culture continues to accelerate. This past year has seen more public media attention and more studies published. A person can now find an instructional video or book for nearly any medical ailment. While these changes are exciting and gratifying for those of us who have been working so long to promote Yoga therapy, I believe this phenomenon represents an important "fork in the road" for us as a profession. The koan Yogi Berra offers us on first blush seems to mean, "Go one direction or the other at the fork in the road," but quite possibly he might be imploring us to be aware that we are making a deliberate choice at the fork.