Weekly Letter: Good vs Right for you

Dear Reader,

I do this little speech in one of my beginners classes. It begins with talking about sitting in a chair. Where chairs came from, who used them first and now how they have come to become a household stable and a torture device on the body.

But there is some psychology to the chair too.

When you first attended school, the good kids stayed in their seats, the 'bad' kids got up from their seats.

The good employees are always at their desk. The 'bad' employees are always 'gossiping around the water cooler'.

So it only make sense that in yoga, the 'good' students stay on their mat in their space. They follow the teacher and do what the teacher does.

But yoga predates the chair, the yoga mat and your Lululemons.

Yoga is a very personal journey, that only we can take for ourselves. Sometimes that means taking a break instead of doing that down dog, or cushioning a joint, it might even mean trying a variation instead of going full-throttle.

Yoga is no Simon-Says and Lord help me, I don't want to be Simon anyway.

So I invite you to consider those moments within your practice. Are you stopping because you need something else? Do you not want to put forth that much effort this day? Or are you listening to another part of you.

Capisce?
~Carmen