Aligning

Aligning: 

I love the immediacy of results in my early morning yoga practice, each pose providing feedback through breath, thoughts and balance. If anything is off by even a fraction my body shows exactly what adjustments are needed and everything aligns. Forgiveness too, for me, is an asana, a posture purposely held throughout my life, returned to as frequently possible. This also provides immediate results, a measurement of peace that's instantly revealed as a holy moment. Sometimes, just like a physical asana, it's just the briefest of alignments. Like every other yoga pose, if I'm mindful, forgiveness provides me the opportunity of trusting a wisdom far greater than the thoughts I might be holding. With this trust I'm asked to make those little adjustments needed to bring me back to God-centered presence, noting whatever led me astray and then offering myself a gentle return to peace of mind. 

so my life is really about yoga now, 

aligning myself,

returning back to God-centered presence....

just as often as it's needed.

~

I love you, Eric

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Finally, Truly Learning Yoga

Finally, truly learning yoga: 

as my recent back injury improves and my yoga asana practice begins to reshape itself again, I find that I'm recommitting myself to the basics poses that brought me here. These are the postures that helped ease my pain and slowly rebuild my mobility, allowing me to continue my practice each morning while feeling firmly connected to my roots in yoga. 

it's not surprising that Vrksasana, tree pose, plays such a large role in my ongoing recovery, establishing a firm base, root deep, spine long and opening to the branching of my arms. I can feel my back healing in this pose, each vertebra settling into place properly aligned. Mountain pose is another, standing in Tadasana, strong and enduring as any mountain, committed to this position through the length of several breaths, mindful, an unwavering base of existence. 

there are several more asanas that made my practice so healing, some with gentleness and ease for my injured area, while others brought just bit of challenge for me to hold. It's exactly what I needed, a balance that helped maintain my strength and kept me engaged mentally, while also providing a safe balm of comfort that allowed for me to heal. So it's important for me to stay connected to these postures, to not gloss over them in my rush to be an advanced yogi again. The truth is, my mind settled more deeply into stillness with only a few committed postures, my focus sharper, and I rediscovered the value of each pose through the limits of my practice, an ongoing lesson of healing and surrender. 

after decades of practice...

I'm finally truly learning yoga.

deeper now than ever before.

 recommitting myself with each breath and every asana.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Well Balanced

Well balanced:

an insight occurred to me this morning doing my asana yoga session, one that might not surprise too many of my close friends, but none the less struck me as important - that I'm not well balanced, never have been and it's doubtful that I'll ever be. Yet I'll keep trying. And truly I mean this as much emotionally as I do physically, how every aspect of my life is in a process of adjustment, always shifting to maintain any sense of equilibrium. 

I am not well balanced, 

however....

there's always a state motion, balancing, fluid, and with this I find that there's always a return to center, it's how I navigate through life. The balancing asanas really reflect this so perfectly, with my first tentative approach to entering a certain pose, an attempt to hold myself steady in the sway of body as well as the unsteadiness of thoughts. Yet I stay with it, adjusting with an intuitive trust of where I need to be, sometimes moving just a fraction of a direction to find a point of poise. 

balancing.

what I find is that no, I'm not well balanced, but I am perfectly equipped to make these fractional adjustments, being able to return repeatedly to center as often as it's needed. To be poised doesn't mean the absence of motion, life is far too dynamic for this to ever occur. What happens is that I finally come to trust the swaying of both my mind and body, that there is an innate wisdom present that only calls for my surrender, to have faith, not in a fictional state of balance - but in the motion itself, knowing that there is grace within every fall. 

even more so in my return. 

balancing.

and with this...I find a certain poise.

~

Peace, Eric 

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