Most people know that going to yoga class is great for your body. Moving into the different asanas, or poses, can help increase flexibility, strength, respiratory health, blood flow, and focus, just to name a few. However, your yoga practice can also be an opportunity to reconnect to your spirit and settle your mind. The stillness we try to create while flowing through a yoga session creates optimal conditions for planting seeds of healing.
Every class I teach, I try to share some piece of wisdom that I know helps me, and that I hope can strike a chord with my students.
This week in class, I shared this quote by Rumi, a poet who lived during the 13th century whose words are as valuable today as they were then:
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."
I don't think any of us really knows why we might feel pulled toward something. Whether it be a passion for art or music, or a burning desire to risk everything and start a new enterprise. There might be so many obstacles in the way to your goal that you might even want to abandon it, renouncing it as silly or unrealistic.
Rumi says that it is not necessarily you fighting for this thing that you want that is leading you to what you desire, but the thing itself that is drawing you to it. It's your destiny.
So, even when it seems impossible, it is ok to put this desire out of your mind for a moment, and let it do the work to come towards you for a while.
This can apply to your yoga practice too. Whether you are trying to reach your toes or fly up into crow pose, often it is when you stop trying to force yourself to the end of the pose and focus on being present where you are, you will suddenly find yourself exactly where you want to be.
Namaste <3
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