Why is my progress stuck in a plateau?

A lot of people hit a plateau because once they can do the advanced yoga poses, they never go back to work on the basic yoga poses.

Imagine you are building a pyramid to become taller. People who only work on the advanced yoga poses are building from the peak. They stack one brick on top of one brick at the very top without broadening the base. This structure is unstable. Eventually it will come to a point where if they added one more brick on top, everything will tip over and fall apart.
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If you want to keep building the pyramid taller infinitely, then you should start adding from the base. Only by adding one brick at a time from the base all the way to the peak can we have a broader peak. Then it will be stable to add a brick on top of the broadened peak. By this way, you can keep building higher peaks infinitely without hitting plateau.

​Similarly in practicing yoga poses, the basic yoga poses are the foundation for the advanced yoga poses. Just because you can do advanced yoga poses does not mean you have perfected the basic yoga poses. Going back to refine the basic yoga poses helps you discover the issues that you have not yet resolved. When you resolve these issues from the basic yoga poses, you’ll naturally improve in your advanced yoga poses.