Corpse pose restores life.  Dead parts of your being fall away, the ghosts are released.  ~Terri Guillemets

I set an alarm this morning to make sure I was up for a morning yoga class. 🙂 Outside, the rain melted the newly fallen snow. Inside, I set the intention for my yoga practice to just melt it all away today. Just let it go, release it into the earth.

Kimberly’s Sunday 11:15 a.m. class is like heaven on earth. She takes you on a journey of self discovery that leaves you feeling light and ready to face the world. And Lori offered her assistance–her hands are like magic. One adjustment from her, and you feel the full expression of the pose…your body wants to linger there and soak it all up.

We flowed into pigeon today, and I felt the resistance immediately, but also the willingness to soften right away. It takes me a few breaths to get into a pose, and I am ok with that because I am being kind to myself, the most wonderful feeling of all. When we revisited the pose later one, I noticed that I could go into the pose a lot easier, settle in, and just breathe. I am in so much discomfort in that pose that the only thing that gets me through it is the breath. Once I break past that plane of “can’t take it,” everything just sinks down, the ego stops, the breath wins out.

We had an extra long rest today, which I appreciated. I was so relaxed that it became difficult to move at all, even if I tried. So many things floated away, on the breath, the breath…