Every Pose

Every pose: 

my favorite yoga pose will often change with the present mood of my body, with the more challenging asanas being favored when I'm at my best, pain free and not easing my body through some past trauma that's returned to pay a visit. Right now I am working through a back issue that's being quite stubborn in its stay, an old injury that never fully healed and will often cause me problems if I'm overly ambition with certain poses, or hold them a bit longer than I know I should, but my enthusiasm so often carries me away from common sense. I'm learning to live with my present body, a difficult task it seems, as I'm older but still fit and love to work with the physical challenge of these postures. Energetically and emotionally as well my favored poses call for me to settle in and surrender to the breath of the experience, holding an asana until a point of steadiness is reached, poise, finding myself smiling at the grace that has somehow been revealed. What I'm learning now, finally it seems...

is that this grace is found through every pose. 

but that I've missed it due to an ego's focus on the challenge. 

and all I've ever had to do - was let go.

surrendering to every pose. 

no matter if it's favored. 

~

Peace, Eric