There is an old joke:

Two campers see a bear, and one immediately puts on his running shoes.

“You can’t outrun the bear,” the other says.

The first one replies, “I don’t have to outrun the bear. I just have to outrun you.”

Is there competition in yoga?  I invite you to ask this question now.

In yoga, do we compete against each other? Some do; let this go. Yoga is about the self, it is only about your own body and your own mind and your own spirit with the union of all.

In yoga, do we compete against ourselves?  Some do; the self of yesterday, or the expected self of tomorrow.  Let this go.  yoga is about the moment.  In that moment, is there competition still?  Sometimes, there is: go further, go faster, go deeper; let this go as well.

When all these forms of competition, between others and between our many selves, drop away, then we can merge into the flow.