Author: pmcrose

It can be very hard, at times, to find light in the darkness.

Yoga and meditation help us with this.

The practices can help us make the best of difficult times. From their support, they give us this fortitude we may not have known we had…

to find light in darkness.

An over-tight spring does not have much bounce.

Yoga and meditation can help put the spring back in our step.

During this pandemic, whose spring has not gotten overnight at times?!

Let’s practice our yoga and meditation especially now as we are getting vaccinated and the virus threat seems to be lessening.

Let’s recover the spring in our step!

When we feel safe, our nervous system can relax. We enter the parasympathetic response.

Breath easy and fully and freely in your yoga pose and/or meditation. Feel the support of your bones and muscles, of the ground, of the air you breathe.

As we find this support and feel safe, we can relax, and feel relief.

When we feel safe, we can recover, and move on.

That sigh of relief!… What a blessing.

Without valleys, there are no mountains.

Need I tell you, we as a world have been living during this pandemic through one of its valleys.

Yoga and meditation have provided steadiness and fortitude and solace here, as they will as we return to higher lands.

The practices will even give us insights about the true value of these low points.

Yoga and meditation help us love and respect, and yes even appreciate, this total landscape!

When our sense of danger is prolonged, it winds our nervous system tighter and can even become chronic.

As our sense of danger decreases or subsides, our nervous system can start to relax or unwind like a tight spring unwinding.

Yoga and meditation, breath and movement and stillness, can help us moderate and support this gradual unwinding and help bring our nervous system to a more relaxed stasis.

The amount of energy to stay relatively safe in this Covid world has required a super-charged nervous system.

Yoga and meditation have given many of us some peace and solace, somewhat of a respite at points during this prolonged stressful time.

Yoga and meditation will continue to support us in unwinding, if and as the threat of infection decreases.

Now, this will really be a shot in the arm we can all welcome!

Even a sip of hot tea or soup can warm our innards and rid us of a chill, and be so soothing and comforting.

So too with yoga and meditation. It can take but a sip.

Practicing realigns, comforts us, soothes… giving us a chance to replenish and renew.

Even just a sip…

Repeated yoga and meditation practice is like building a muscle.

As we practice, we build our connection to this calmer, steadier part of ourselves which is not effected by our outer circumstance.

This practiced connection becomes over time almost habitual, and is not only more easily returned to, but it is easier to maintain in adversity.

Our yoga and meditation practices are a recovery system.

When we practice, we do certain practices–asanas, breath work, meditation, etc–that bring us into a calmer, more heart-centered zone.

You could say we build, through practicing the practices, neural pathways or routes to recovery that serve us over and over again when circumstances trigger our fright-fight-flight-freeze response.

Practice can bring us greater resiliency!

Since our bodies are organic, alive, they are, by their very nature, always changing and different from one moment to the next.

Our felt sense of our body always requires us to be present to the moment, to have beginner’s mind.