If only we could drop the idea or need that we «have» to «do» a yoga pose, to comply with what we are told as «the Truth» even if it does not feel right in the body (and all its layers)?
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And what if we could mindfully drop the «performing» we all tend to do at times (in & out the yoga mat) to be either loved, accepted, comply, promoted or cover some kind of wound we may all have?
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It is so hard. I know.
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We do seem to be conditioned to hold those performing masks and be/do «better», whatever this «better» can mean.
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And how hard can it be to perform the role of «You» that is actually far from the ease of being You?
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I know this feeling so deeply myself... so intimately.
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And, I am learning.
I am learning that there is no « better » and in the process, I am learning to drop some of these performing veils which can be so sticky.
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On the yoga mat (as always the allegory of the « spirit » we tend to nourish in our lives), this would mean performing (and at times pushing into) a pose to make it once again « better » (argh!), instead of allowing the pose to unfold in the way that is safe and auspicious (and ultimately, true) for you. We perform a pose instead of actually embodying it. A vast difference, right?
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Your alignment, your « truth » are unique to you, as much as my alignment & truth are unique to me.
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There is never one way.
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Yet , sometimes it feels like there is only one way, in Life, in discussions, at work, in relationships, in yoga classes.
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Life seems to be a play or a living theatre where we all get a role to play. And I dream for us to have a «role» that is giving us the space to BE, to be the soul we are meant to explore, not somebody’s or society’s projections.
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I do not always know how to connect to those easeful feelings of being in alignment to myself, so i tend to let it happen. C’est tout.
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No control....Unfold instead.
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I must say that I can now feel greater awareness of when I perform a role or a yoga pose that is not authentic to me, where there is the controlling voice of me getting louder. And...there is a bit of a gap created between the « performing » me and the more « absolute» me.
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I notice it more and more actually.
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Sometimes such awareness and gap created would just stay as awareness but often it can evolve towards greater authentic flow.
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My constant personal mantra recipe?
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Allow, allow, allow.
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Let everything be felt. Just that, as I am not sure there is actually much more to « do » in order to « be ».
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The Truth of You is in your body. Always.
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Lovingly. 🌬🤍