Monday morning at 11:50 I was putting the final touches on a quick Reiki session in my mom’s office. After discussing the state of her chakras, energetic problems and me giving assignments, we began to discus yoga. Mom mother’s in the middle of the biggest break up or make up with yoga of her life thus far. She’s in Shambhala directors training and has little time to devote herself to a practice but can’t shake the amazing hold yoga has on her. I know the feeling. So I gave her a LONG lecture starting with the fact that you can have a 5 minute asana practice and still be a yogi. A yoga practice for her should be based on quality. For people who aren’t so experienced with meditation (she sits for hours at a time) it can be based on showing up and focusing for a particular amount of time until it becomes natural.
There’s this girl I know. Most beautiful pigeon with a yoga mudra I’ve ever seen. I mean, she looks like poetry. She’s also the most competitive yoga student I’ve seen. She spends most of her time on the mat showing off her skill and anticipating what the teacher will say next. One Sunday I encountered the type of person who I like to call “the happiest little yogi”. She used a prop or a very basic version of the pose for practically all of the asanas that I lead. But she had the sweetest, most blissful look on her face during the entire practice. This is because her head was in the practice. I spoke about this in the previous post but I want to stress that there is little that’s more important then showing up for the moment. Sometimes lives depend on it like if you’re a surgeon or a child’s care taker. But your life is always at stake. Living outside of the present moment is dangerous for your mind like cigarettes for the lungs. Visualizations, mind games and fantasies all have their place in life but I worry for those who spend the day in a world of make believe. A reality separate of the one they walk in. We need to take the moment back. Make our life more like a fantasy instead of spending all of the now in a thought bubble. I commit to spending my time in the world I live in instead of one of my imagination. I will make everything around me beautiful like a world wide chocolate factory.
Assignment Time: Spend some time thinking of the safe place you go to in your mind. What’s so wonderful and magical about it? Now bring some of that majestic quality to life! It could be volunteering with your teacher to give discounted sessions, wearing brilliantly pigmented lipstick, applying for grad school without thinking about how long it will take to finish or writing a letter of thanks to your day care teachers. You can do anything you want. Just do it with a joyful heart.
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