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Sometimes we get it wrong. And sometimes it’s exactly what it needs to be.
To a scroller looking for a perfect yoga practice with impeccable form, you’d see a lot of mistakes in these Asana’s. But here is some context:
The first half of this year has been… rough. There have been some wins, some big losses, and a lot of pressure to maintain composure while things crumble. I have let people down. I have gotten my hopes up. I’ve lost friends, gained friends, deepened my other friendships. I’ve been grieving those losses, the ends, the passing of a parent, and here’s a new one, grieving the loss of expectations unrealized. And I have been doing so mostly quietly.
In a year, I lost 45 pounds without trying, instilling a fear of physical activity making it worse. It’s dimmed my skin and thinned my hair. Now my weight is coming back, hair is filling in, and I don’t appear so sullen. I am getting active again as I allow myself to heal from the fresh wounds.
As a yogi, I’m forced to see the grief in my body. The stiffness, the gravel sound in my knees with age. I see a practice that is usually a flow, now a confession. I see a human forcing herself to stay in her pose longer so that she can listen to what her body naturally wants, and then answer in the movements, which might not look the same from one side to the next.
I remember a woman who would have beaten herself up in the past for not perfecting her Asana. But today I see a woman finally working with Ahimsa.
I made a promise years ago that I wouldn’t treat yoga like that one reliable friend that you can count on in crisis and then neglect when things are great. I showed up for yoga regularly, and as a result, I realized fewer crisis. Fear pulled me away. Fear of what my body would do, and fear of what yoga might have expected of me when I was so, so drained.
And now I recover. Now I heal. And now I do so with grace, realism, and compassion.
Please grant yourself permission to surren
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