Committed to My Yoga

Committed to my yoga: 

almost at first rising I'm committed to my yoga, a quick prayer of thankfulness for finding myself awake, breathing, alive, and I am soon into my beginning asana for the day, sukhasana, easy pose - this is a sitting posture for meditation, legs folded, stable and at ease. Sukhasana is the yoga of Patanjali, it's what he asks of our practice, finding a balance of steadiness and ease and with this to allow meditation to unfold completely on its own. 

it's a beautiful way to start my day. 

committed to my practice. 

I should note that I use the word practice here not so much in the sense of discipline, but more as a description of love, devotion really, and that it conveys for me a feeling of imperfectly navigating through life, yet filled with grace and ease - that I am always on course, even as I wander far from home. My life is yoga, already joined through union with the divine, and any practice simply serves as a reminder. More truly, it's just a display of joyful motion. 

enjoying the gift of being alive. 

this is why I enjoy sukhasana so much, it's a symbol for me, that first I remain still, a gathering of pranic energy that soon comes to motion and engages fully in every aspect of life. Sukhasana prepares me for participation, opening my spine, a gentle stretch through hips and legs, calming my mind. It singles that I'm committed to my yoga, whatever it might bring to me each day. Each morning there comes a spontaneous smile as I sit in sukhasana, it's an easy pose that suits me so perfectly. 

that I'm committed to my yoga...

steady and at ease. 

however my day unfolds. 

~

Peace, Eric