After yoga flow...

Fresh out of a practice, showered, then on with my day. Some days I don’t get the opportunity to start my days in this way. Other days I am lucky to end my day in this way. In both ways I have said thank you to myself by getting to class, getting on the mat, and maybe only breathing, but always present with myself. It’s the practice of love and it’s the truest love you can find in this world.

I have been practicing for many years and I am noticing how much it has changed. I am noticing how it has made me who I am or brought me back to who I was supposed to be before I let that go. It’s funny cause what happens to us? How do we lose our way? We live in a world that is full of people trying to find that ultimate happiness or bliss. Why is it so hard to get there?

I think that we are too consumed in the sense of competition that the search invokes. We think it’s supposed to look a certain way and once it looks a certain way then, and only then, we will feel the way we were searching for. As this search continues through the years of our life, we get further away from the contentment that is contained within us. It’s stuffed under bad relationships, bad habits or sanskaras, impulsive superficial purchases and envy of others. We lose all that makes us great, which is nothing that you can put your hands on.

When I was pregnant, I took my first yoga class. Yoga found me when I was in this place of transformation. I remember the warmth I felt in that class, I don’t remember too much more. Being in that class then in 1998, has led to where I am now. I wasn’t searching for a path, but I needed it.  I needed a way back to faith, ultimately faith in a higher power, but it began with faith in myself, that what I was about to get into, I was indeed capable of doing. It was a while after that class that I really set out on my journey in this life through yoga. A seed had been planted and once my mind was ready to let it bloom, once the mud was clear, I began a path back to me.

While living the life you have it’s hard to always see that you have stayed going in the right direction. Things happen and we are tested and we don’t always come out on top of situations, but it’s all good in some way. I am learning more every day to trust the process of this life through my practice. Yoga practice changes the energy that moves us in this life, we are more than we see and when we awaken the vessel we dwell in, we awaken all that is within us. It’s like we finally turn the engine on and set out on a journey instead of just sitting in the car looking out the window.