I M Perfect lady

Tag: body

  • Will I love it enough to continue forward…..(day two)

    This morning an older lady stiffly made her way to her basement, rolled out the yoga mat and put the CD going. 

     

    Her mind began the dreaded words, “you will never make it 60 days, this doesn’t feel good, what have you promised so many?”

     

    I then began the yoga and let the worries of whether I can complete the next 58 days go.

     

    My sore muscles were not comfortable in many poses, but I noticed by the second set they were less sore.

     

    I am thinking that in all of life we tend to push back and away from pain and discomfort instead of understanding the source. 

     

    The long months of neglect to this body are the source of the pain, not the yoga. 

     

    The yoga gets the blame when it is really the one who is here to fix and repair.

     

    If I can just remember that by stopping the yoga I am actually supporting the neglect of this body, it may help keep my momentum going. 

     

    Creating new habits and ways of living, feel awkward and difficult, it would be much easier to just walk back to the old routine.

     

    As I moved through the 90 minutes, I focused more on each pose, each screaming muscle and concentrated on bringing in healing breaths.

     

    Little gulps of sadness seemed to be with the sore muscles; emotion seemed to pass by as each new breath came in.

     

    It is very enlightening how much my body has gone unnoticed, and lived without me paying attention to its needs.

     

    The body is innocent, it simply follows our lead, if we lead it to disuse, abuse, laziness, we can hardly blame it for reflecting our actions!

     

    Just as much as our body is a reflection of past behaviors, we can change this by bringing it to yoga each day, and little by little turn this all around.

     

    I felt sad in the state it was in, but hopeful that change was at hand, and frightened that perhaps I will once again turn from it in neglectful abuse.

     

    It is scary it is all up to me, no one is coming along to bring health to this body, only me.  A daunting thought.  Will I love it enough to continue forward…

     

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  • A Perfect You.

    “No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

               Martha Beck

     

    To sit in the middle of truth and go with the flow of it, although difficult and painful, is so much easier and better on your body and soul than trying to fight it.

     

    You suffer no matter what, but I would much rather suffer in the truth than to suffer pretending it isn’t happening!

     

    My brother’s yoga teacher said to them yesterday, “Let Go of the Suffering (and go with the flow)”

     

    The flow is as it is; you are where you are, and not a moment sooner or later.

     

    As we begin the 60-day yoga challenge, don’t try and bring your body where it is not ready to go, face each posture with your level of limberness and strength, be okay right where you are and have patience with your body and little by little it will bring you further into the posture.

     

    Don’t suffer wishing you were further, don’t hurt your body trying to bend push and stretch it beyond its comfort.  Remember to breathe in each pose, if you lose the breath, you maybe reaching out too far.

     

    We will build upon the foundation of where you are today, to learn how to stand and lock your knees like a solid lamppost unbroken.

     

    If you try and skip the locked knee, your pose will be shaky and unsteady or reliable.

     

    There are so many metaphors between this yoga and life, slow down and focus on you.

     

    You will watch your body change and strengthen, balance and become limber, flowering into a perfect you.