Started the day with a yoga class at Bernal Yoga. KT was back from her travels and I was back from mine. It had been several weeks since I'd done yoga. Winter illnesses, the pre-holiday rush and trips away kept me from my Sunday classes. Today I was back, still low from the loss of Mavis, but knowing that my body needed to stretch and that my nervous system needed the calm.
We started off chanting Patanjali's first sutra:
We started off chanting Patanjali's first sutra:
atha yoga-anushasanam
This can be translated from Sanskrit to English as, "Now begins the discourse on yoga" or, "Here begins yoga."
KT went on to share her favorite translation with roughly says, "every moment in your life, every choice and every turn, has brought you to this one perfect moment where yoga can begin."
How's that for fresh beginnings? Whenever I start to regret something from my past, in particular, choices that I've made, I remind myself that if I'd taken a different course, that I wouldn't have the tremendous gift of C!
Gotta keep bringing it back to the present, to this "one perfect moment." Within that moment is the promise of everything.
KT went on to share her favorite translation with roughly says, "every moment in your life, every choice and every turn, has brought you to this one perfect moment where yoga can begin."
How's that for fresh beginnings? Whenever I start to regret something from my past, in particular, choices that I've made, I remind myself that if I'd taken a different course, that I wouldn't have the tremendous gift of C!
Gotta keep bringing it back to the present, to this "one perfect moment." Within that moment is the promise of everything.
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