Author: pmcrose

If you, like many, are hesitant these days to go into the confines of a yoga studio to practice, now may be the right time to start that at-home yoga practice you’ve always wanted.

This really might just be the perfect time to bring it home!

Give yourself a break from it all and take a hike!

Get out of any and all crowds, and spend some time in nature—at a beach, in a garden, on a trail….

Get amongst the trees, the flowers, the waves… the breeze, and take a deep breath!

Maybe even strike a yoga pose or two, or sit on a rock or a stump and meditate.

Re-ground in nature and soothe your frazzled nerves.

It’s time, my friend, for you to take a hike!

Through the present dangers, hysteria, fear, and panic, let your yoga and meditation draw you into your peaceful compassionate heart to serve those around you with love.

There is light through the clouds!

Yoga and meditation can clear the congestion from our hearts.

There are two viruses spreading: coronavirus and fear.

One is treated by healthcare professionals with medicine, and the other…

treatable by visits to stiller and calmer parts of ourselves via meditation and yoga. Time in nature can also get us away from these bugs and give us a chance to breathe easier.

We all want to do our part and take precautions not to catch or spread these viruses!

The quiet in meditation and yoga is beyond words.

It speaks in the language of sensation.

Like a swan gliding on the water towards us, grace floats into our yoga and meditation practices carrying us to our center.

Show up to the practices and be carried away by grace!

Greater equanimity is not about flatlining or denying our emotions.

With greater equanimity, we are more able to respond and are less bound to our reactive tendancies. We can allow ourselves to more fully feel our range of emotions because we know we can choose if and how we respond to them.

As we grow steadier in equanimity through yoga and meditation, we become freer to feel life more deeply!

Equanimity steadies us during turbulent times.

As we watch our breath during meditation and yoga, our mind draws steadier.

We become more grounded and gain more equanimity in the midst of the circumstances–a real blessing in such times… and certainly nothing to sneeze at!

Balance your continuous applied effort with less attachment to outcome, and bring about greater equanimity, greater evenness of mind.

Our mind can settle into focusing more on the here and now rather than be fixated on the goal and the outcomes. This will calm the vrittis, the near-constant fluctuations of the mind.

Try this in your next yoga session, diligent effort and presence without any goal or expected outcomes in mind for each pose. Quit trying to “achieve” that pose, and see what you discover!