As I’ve written before, Shelby usually starts yoga class asking how you want to feel. Often, I think “calm” or “peace” or “wrung out” or “strong” but recently, a new one popped up: free to feel. When we adopted Bob, one of my favorite ways the terrible handlers described him is “he has big feelings.”…
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I Don’t Want to Be Who I’ve Made Myself | Thursday (Yoga) Therapy
Shelby often starts yoga class asking us to name one thing we’re grateful for and then how we want to feel. A couple weeks ago, tears sprang to my eyes as my soul answered the latter with “not like me”. I don’t want to feel like me. Taken aback but unsurprised—I had walked in salty,…
(Yoga) Therapy Thursday: Go All The Way
This makes a lot of sense but doesn’t always actually make my handstand better. Which I guess is no worse than the other way. So.
(Yoga) Therapy Thursday: I Still Don’t Really Get It
Imma be honest, I wanted to draw this one but I can’t fully grasp its translation to my life, specifically. Maybe one of y’all can, though? Also this isn’t even fire logs pose. And fire logs’ only jobs are to burn. I DON’T GET IT AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I PUBLISHED THIS. Help.
(Yoga) Therapy Thursday: Appreciation
“Appreciate yourself. Is there something you’ve been wanting appreciation for? Thinking you deserve? Don’t wait for someone else to acknowledge you, acknowledge yourself for what you know you’ve done.” Caitlin, today at BFree, during savasana Wow, ok.
(Yoga) Therapy Thursday: The Gift of Impermanence
Aside from therapy wisdom, I’ve also been pulling out lots of good nuggets from yoga recently. Like this one: The gift of impermanence is that things don’t stay the same. Change can be hard; it’s easy to mourn what was. But those shifts are where we eliminate stagnation, and grow. Impermanence is a gift.
Feel Good Friday 093011
Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! Having skier extraordinaire Nick Devore play a didgeridoo over my body during Yoga Therapy class Happy meat for just $4/lb from Homestead Meats at…