Lightness is the outcome of moving energy easily and efficiently through the body. The balance of Muscular Energy and Organic Extension plays a large part in allowing us to find this.
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Opening to Grace
I never thought I could remember people’s names. In order to avoid embarassment, I avoided people. One day I found myself in a position where I discovered that it was possible for me to do it.
Possibility begins when we open up to it. It doesn’t mean it will be easy, or we will always be successful, but until we allow it an opportunity to manifest, nothing will never happen.
Congratulations on being in a spot where enormous possibility lies before you.
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Refinements: Urdhva Dhanurasana
Opening is not quick business. We have to explore how we want to open, where we want to allow ourselves to expand.
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Hot air for a cool breeze
We achieve lightness through a profound sense of the things we can’t see.
Yoga is a tool for creating connections. It invites us to cultivate them, engage with them, refine them, and enjoy them without being defined by them.
On the mat, we become more connected to our body, to it’s triumphs and failures, to our expectations and our reality, and we work to observe and enjoy, but not see ourselves as limited to them.
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Digging in the dirt
Every pose needs to grow out of a place of stability—if we feel insecure or unsupported, we can’t be free in the pose.
This goes double for inversions.
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Let the right one in
Humans are good with patterns. We see what we are attuned to see. We use the power of sankalpa, of articulating what we desire for ourselves, of making it manifest, to help us see what we already had.
As we are more still, we can be more aware
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Elevate your game
Our aspirations can give us something to work toward.
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If I’m Dreaming My LIfe
We can’t always rely on our conscious, rational ability to choose. Sometimes we have to work with things that are less concrete.