As you sit for meditation and during yoga, picture your pelvis and hips being like a big bowl that can hold everything as it is right now.
Welcoming rather than resisting brings greater presence.
Breathe into this presence and feel the resonance of the harmonizing and conflicting, settled and agitated, organized and askew… the swirl of all this happening together…
NOW.
May your yoga be like the hands of the massage therapist.
May it rub you the right way…
towards love!
There’s nothing better than a kind touch during such overwhelming times.
Through our yoga and meditation, we can learn to nurture our stress rather than try to avoid or work to get rid of it.
Be kind to it. Welcome it rather than resist it; it is trying to tell us something.
A kind touch can be the Midas touch!
Now is the perfect time to be alive…
because it’s when we are!
Now is the time we’ve got!
Yoga and meditation can help awaken us to this obvious fact.
What you do now will be your past, and was your future.
Feel the past and future echoing in the present.
Root in now. It’s timeless!
Now, with its infinite tendrils, reaches into the nether regions of the past… and the future.
Now is what we have to act and to do!
Let’s do as best we can to create good echos together for the benefit of all!
During yoga or meditation, bring your attention to the flow of fluids in your body–saliva, gurgles, warmth, tingles, undulations… radiations….
The breath flows in and out….
Bring your awareness to this menagerie of movement.
Your awareness flowing with it…
In your body…
right now!
Vary your yoga poses to step out of your habit body and move into the flow… a different foot forward first, sequence your poses in a new way….
Start meditation with a new pattern of breath work or pranayama, cross your legs the opposite way than usual….
Step out of your habit body into the flow.
As you practice your yoga and meditation, be aware of peace when it lights upon you like the brush of a butterfly’s wings.
Graciously savor its infinitely satisfying sweet nectar.
It can nourish you and those around you!
Old favorite shoes that feel so good may not be suitable for the climb or terrain before us.
Such is our habit body, a space and range of motion and emotion we are accustomed to which has served us well again and again.
Varying our yoga poses and breath work can put us in touch with our creative fluid body. As we move into and out of poses and breath work and even meditation in new ways, we awaken fluidity in new channels.
Times like these–with the coronavirus and social unrest related to race*–yearn for new solutions, new responses from us.
Yoga and meditation can help us adapt to these and other new challenges, to become more fluid with the new situations and explore creative solutions posed by changing times.
*New challenges will always come–global warming, political upheaval…
The Every Day Yogi 