A key component, often overlooked, for any yoga class or practice is setting up a safe space–physically to avoid injury and energetically and emotionally so we feel safe and held. A safe space leaves us free to explore, to open to what is happening at this time for us, and for the possibility of transformation.
In this safe space, freer of threat, we can calm down and grow quieter; literally our amygdala can relax. We can enter a safer, more serene space.
Over time, as we practice more and more, we can learn to carry this safe space with us, to recreate it in new situations–in conversations with friends and even in chance encounters. We can share it with others.
In this world that often feels unsafe, we can spread and share the sensation of this safe space and all the benefits to our well-being it can bring.
Welcome to yoga–on and off the mat!
The Every Day Yogi 