When we grasp toward ourselves, we simultaneously block anything to move in either direction - we deflect gifts offered and resist giving away our own gifts. We barricade off new knowledge and we defer from offering our own ideas freely without aggression or expectation. We cloud perception and function. We muddy the waters and prevent the possibility of space and renewal. When we grasp, we tend to create stagnation. We prevent the free movement of our biological functions, the free movement of ideas, of people and that of our own potential.
the big questions
body + mind
I have been sharply reminded yet again in the last few days that this life is always in flux, never guaranteed. The only rule to count on is that everything will change and fall away eventually. With that truth in mind, I carry the preciousness of these transformative practices in my heart. I have been so fortunate to have a life that guided me into Yoga and am so appreciative to have had this much time to explore what Yoga really is and what it can offer us.
Regardless of where I land in my career and the transitions that have been set in motion, these precious practices will be carried along wherever I go and the heart of my dharma will remain steady; the voice of my heart crying ever clearer, triumphant from the mountaintop of a life well-studied, well-explored, well-lived.
viewpoints
We find ourselves cramming our life into a crack where the light could otherwise shine in.
We find ourselves rushing to the edge of a cliff where we could, in another iteration, choose to pause to witness the vista.
We leave ourselves behind as we attempt to digest the cultural call to mult-task, to fit more into less time, to optimize and maximize and become ever more like the artificial entities at each of our fingertips.
But we are not artificial.
We are like the rain and the sun on a wild summer day. We are like the royal hawk who waits still and silent in her tree, scanning the fields for the scurrying of mice. We have the capacity to listen, to feel, to see, to pause.
To pause.