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<\/a>While in my yoga class on Sunday I felt the need to give thanks for Ashtanga Yoga<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nI bow at the foot of the lotus. Saluting the Sun in mindful repetition. Warming my body. Stretching to and past my limits. Exercising my strength and power, never ceasing to breath, steady and rhythmic. The heat builds, circulating my\u00a0blood moving energy clearing toxins (the poison of samsara), making the tight places looser and the loose weak places stronger. Extending always extending into space, relaxed energy, directed and focused but never rigid.<\/p>\n
Honesty with self about limitations, fear only in the mind, pushing it out of my body. The sweat like a river carrying it all away. Balancing all my energies, never sacrificing form for ego. No matter the asana we continue to breath. At times wanting to give up and accepting this\u2026accepting it all. Slowing when my body says so.\u00a0We adjust.\u00a0Honoring the precise moment in which we\u00a0find ourselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Always moving and flowing, un-damned energy, fresh and alive.\u00a0 Finally\u2026 finally assuming the pose of the corpse, a reward after a long,\u00a0arduous,\u00a0beautiful life.\u00a0 We are allowed to rest now, released, the breath is free\u2026we are free and we revel in this truth. My practice and all the attendant awarenesses\u2026a metaphor for life.<\/p>\n
I thank my body and the spirit that illuminates me.<\/p>\n
Namaste<\/p>\n
(first posted 11.9.09)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0 While in my yoga class on Sunday I felt the need to give thanks for Ashtanga Yoga\u00a0 I bow at the foot of the lotus. Saluting the Sun in mindful repetition. Warming my body. Stretching to and past my … Continue reading