12/09/2022
I find it profoundly fascinating how one interprets the world.
Yoga traditions say that the external world is however your internal world exists. Do you see joy around you? Do you see ignorance? Is everything like fitting a square peg in a round hole? Or do you know how to witness and surrender to the natural flow?
Our bodies were meant for movement. But our perceptions often can translate these shapes differently than how another body expresses them. offered a flow for (her favorites, let’s be real 😏) other movement lovers to play around with.
What I’ve always loved and connected to with Cathy is that we both see the body as an expression of something deeper than a physical vessel. It is moving art. It moves and breathes and bends in ways that seem unimaginable…until you see it in front of you (thank you, interwebs!).
And one of the most exciting things is to witness someone doing something wonderfully creative and inspiring in a passion of yours, and you immediately begin to reimagine how you would interpret and express your own version. I’m finding now in my own practice that I’ve begun to focus less on the look of the shape and more on whatever whispers I can detect of the more subtle energetics.
Is the movement (or non-movement) pulling me to become more earthy, dissolving, apanic, or is my expression being ushered in a more enlivening, pranic way? What little secrets can I uncover from my practice, without judgement, without attachment, without labeling good or bad?
Such beauty awaits you. Yeah, YOU! You don’t have to throw any shapes to experience yoga. You just have to begin being comfortable with being uncomfortable. ✌🏻
Thank you, Cathy for such a fun challenge. Apologies for not getting to it sooner, but, you know, life 🤷🏻♀️
