I love yoga!

I wish I'd found yoga 30 years ago!

I love how I feel when I'm practicing regularly.... I love the suppleness of my body, the centeredness of my mind, the painless state of my back.

At first, yoga hurt. LOL. But given a week to 10 days, my body realized, I believe, that I was trying to do something good for it- novel idea, but I was trying! And it relaxed and let the yoga happen.

I once read a discussion about the Christian practice of yoga. Personally, I found it silly to think you couldn't practice yoga and Christianity. One is not exclusive of the other. There is no worship in yoga. There is acceptance, and honor, and love in yoga. Accepting your body the way it is, honoring the body's limitations, and loving yourself with all your imperfections and limitations.

I think those are lessons we can all use, regularly.

Today in Savasana (Corpse pose, meditation/relaxation at the end of practice), I thought, "I'm cold" and followed that thought with, "I'm thankful that I'll only be cold for a few minutes, then I'll go get in the warm sauna, or my warm car, and I don't have to sleep outside tonight, or work outside today." This is one of the reasons I love yoga. While I'm practicing for myself, it takes me out of myself, too. I'm allowing myself to be self-centered for an hour of practice, and that allows me to see others more clearly the rest of the time.

Namaste.