Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.
Higher states of awareness is a by product of mental development and conscious evolution.
Fall with awareness and acceptance.
Conscious evolution means having the desire to evolve.
It doesn't matter what it looks like; it matters what it feels like.
The only reason that we humans and all creatures have made it thus far is because of the lessons learned consciously and unconsciously through the challenges we have been through.