Musing…
“It’s on the strength
of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.” – Claude Monet
Charise’s Turn:
In each yoga class I lead we close with Shavasana, or
relaxation, to come to a state of rest and awareness after completing asana
practice (yoga poses). This is
when you integrate action on a subtler level and revel in the effect of yoga --
and hatha yoga literally means yoking of sun and moon, thereby bringing oneself
into a greater wholeness. In
Shavasana I focus on breathing as something to anchor and deepen the experience
of rest but there is more than rest going on. All kinds of connections are
happening – front to back body, centers
to extremities, internal to external, expansion to softening, inhalation to
exhalation. My job as leader is to
foster these connections and they can get very interesting in that mode of
awake rest.
Last week, after saying the typical “let go as you breathe out”, I
added “and let in the effect of your inspiration”. Inspiration is inhalation, but that’s not exactly what I
meant. I meant inspiration – in the sense of letting go to allow inspiration to
move in. For it’s often in the emptying of ourselves, or getting ourselves out
of the way, or releasing certain thoughts or beliefs we hold, that we then find
something creative can happen from a deeper impulse. Coincidentally last week I
also wrote a poem while resting from a muscle spasm. Lines of the poem started writing themselves in my mind
while I was lying down with no goal but to sleep, doze, breathe. The poetic
impulse came through.
To be ready or to get ready may imply doing, action,
busyness or goals – but there is also a readiness of creativity that happens
when you let it in. Think of a law of attraction – you make space
available to draw in your true voice or your true calling or your true idea or
your true desire.
“Wild flowers grow
where they will.” – Rachel Lambert Mellon
Get Fired Up:
Breathe in, breathe out.
Breathe in, let go as you breathe out.
Breathe in, let go as you breathe out and let in the effect of your inspiration.
Let in the effect of your inspiration.
Ready...let it in.
Breathe in, let go as you breathe out.
Breathe in, let go as you breathe out and let in the effect of your inspiration.
Let in the effect of your inspiration.
Ready...let it in.
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