You can’t force the butterfly’s wings to open. Everything is happening right on time. Be content with what is and allow it to unfold, to lead you to the next step and the next….
With kindness, invite yourself and others to open.
You can’t force the butterfly’s wings open. Breathe into your yoga poses and allow yourself to open!
The caring heart is rooted in love.
Through yoga and meditation, we can expand and deepen our roots.
We draw on their strength and support to steady us to spread our branches wide into this world.
The grounded heart is rooted in peace and contentment.
The grounded heart is open to the moment just as it is… and has the capacity to embrace it. Well-rooted and grounded, it provides firm support to step into the next.
Through our yoga and meditation practices, we reconnect to our grounded heart, regain it whenever teetering, and grow its roots ever deeper.
The heart of the explorer is curious yet safe.
Yoga and meditation can help foster a mind that is present and takes precautions to be safe, and yet remains open and curious and is willing and eager to explore.
Breathe into your curious space and embrace the heart of the explorer!
Day-in-and-day-out, we all have unexpected adverse events that come up that may initially shock us.
Initial reactions can be fright and withdrawal, fright and fleeing or wanting to flee, or anger that this is happening.
A few deep and steady yoga breaths can begin to restore our center and regain our equanimity to assess the situation and bring our powers at hand to deal with this sudden situation.
We have built into us a natural resiliency that is with us usually only a few deep breaths away.*
We just need to remember to use it!
*Obviously, trauma and other major shocking occurrences such as serious health issues can require much more work to regain relative equanimity to recover!
The moon is only full for a moment in time, less than a nanosecond. As soon as it is full, in the next moment it begins to wane.
So too with a yoga pose… or more accurately, a yoga form.
Every yoga pose is actually a flow into and out of a particular form, no static pose is reached or achieved to be the pose.
So too in life–a flow of forms and events arise and dissolve… no perfect or ideal one existing or ever reached.
Yoga and meditation can engender or stimulate a natural resiliency of heart, mind, body, and spirit.
Practice regularly to recover your buoyancy when and if it wanes.
Reset yourself!
A bird must rest in its nest so it can gather strength to fly.
So too with humans.
Build your nest via your yoga and meditation practices to rest…
and to fly!
There is a peace and freedom, a release, in letting go.
So why should this be so difficult?
Practicing yoga and meditation is an invitation to letting go.
Yoga can teach us not to be too attached to anything… because tomorrow, or even in the next moment, things will change!
And yoga can help us become anchored in that which is constant amidst this change.
Rooting ourselves in peace frees us to give up or let go of that which disrupts it.
Through the practices we grow our roots deeper and deeper….
It seems the only sensible response to this crazy world… to dig our roots deeper in peace!
