06/21/2022
Savasana is the hardest and most important pose in my yoga practice
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What can you do when it seems that life as you know it starts to fall apart around you? Pretending doesn’t work, and there’s literally no way to run back toward a place that no longer exists.
We can numb ourselves silly by over-consuming what we know to our core isn’t good for us in the long-term.
We can hide behind relationships and all forms of escapism knowing that this isn’t sustainable.
I loosely remember the first few times I laid down in Savasana.
Sometimes it was peaceful, but even now, sometimes it takes all of my effort to keep it from being a mental and emotional battle and be still
My first time struggling was a battle of resisting the urge to *fix* me, to get up and go, and as I practiced it became clear: learning how to purely feel my emotions and surrender is one of this life’s greatest lessons
Savasana has shown me what happens, when you choose to stop gripping your body so tightly, and decide to release your burdens, and all things out of your control, to the earth
It is often seen as the practice of endings - aka, death, where everything large and small has to experience some type of completion
What we practice here is learning that we’ve done our best *for now* and that it is time to rest and trust that all things will work out as they need to
As the sun peaks in it’s golden light today, make sure to reflect in it’s radiance, and acknowledge that same golden light within yourself also exists, perhaps waiting to be uncovered
Make time to lay down and be
Surrender, acknowledge, let the layers fall off
Cheers to all of you on the journey of choosing yourselves first each and every day and may you embrace what’s to come with grace ❤️☀️