Here is an informal invitation to consider this question for yourself at this time of year when we pause to remember what we are most grateful for. Here’s my answer: Yoga forged the way for me to be a strong support for myself when others couldn’t meet that expectation. Thankfully, yoga also led me to a community who want nothing more than to support each other, and explore together. Yoga led me to integrated connection, deep within, that created the magnetic pull of those who were also connected in this way. Yoga allows me to honor and REALLY experience “symptoms” of life in every shape ~ joy and pain, sunshine and rain (here we go, here we go). Yoga helped me heal from a painful injury in my cervical spine, and deal with the fusion that couldn’t be healed. Yoga reminds me of the unbelievable significance and sanctity of my breath, which was the single realization six years ago that allowed me to be a smoker one day, and a non-smoker the next, seriously! Yoga was my impetus to leave a high paying, glamorous career in favor of financial struggles coupled with pure contentment and true abundance almost always. Yoga is a practice for me to perhaps soften that almost into an always, perhaps not. And that’s ok. Yoga provides me with the capacity, every single day, to align in every sense of the word – in my body, with myself, with others around me and with nature’s most basic rhythm. And to forgive myself on those days when I don’t step in.
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