Princess Sassy Pants & Co.™

When I started doing yoga a while back, this was one of the poses I wanted to learn. I was in pretty good shape, but I had very little flexibility in my back and only moderate flexibility elsewhere. (I also wanted to bend my back and bring my toes to my head.)

After consistent practice, little tiny bits of progress were in evidence until eventually, I could do these poses. It’s not about the poses, though. So what? Really. What does it really matter if my back can bend or if I can do this sitting compass pose? What mattered was watching how consistent practice opens us to transcend what we think are limits; not as much physically, but within.

For me, yoga is a moving meditation. It is simply a practice to learn how to listen within while purposefully doing physically challenging poses. When you stray from that sense of peace or inner focus, you just bring yourself back…over and over again. It’s during life’s challenges that we need to be able to turn to peace the most, and yoga is just one of the ways I train for this. For me, it’s a spiritual training practice more than anything else.