One morning, a friend and role model shared a brilliant insight with me. I'd already learned plenty of lessons from this person: how to organize your mind like a flowchart, be present and engaged with the people to whom you're speaking, how to create and live your dreams through writing down and pursuing goals. Today, she shared this simple phrase- "Always be doing something".
We are a beautiful blend of three things- mind, breath, and body. The gift of the mind is its ability to visit the past to learn from our habits and history and imagine the future to dream and plan. The gift of the body is that it's always in the present. When you stub your toe, or make contact with another body through a hug or handshake, you are drawn back to right now.
This is the great secret of the poses you perform in class. We teachers keep you moving to keep you in the present. Plenty of activities in our society are designed to transport you to the past or future, to support you pretending you're somewhere else. Yoga is now. By setting the body in less common postures and choosing to be conscious of the breath, we become posted to the present. It is here, in this moment, that you can affect change and break the pattern of all old ways of being. Through linking the breath and the movement, you become the real organic you. No pesticides.
Always be doing something, whether it's everything or nothing.
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