Good Morning, Monday
Monday am rolls up and my schedule is: 3 1/4 hr Forrest Heal Your Back MP3 and a 2 pm deep tissue massage. Oh, and clean the house since we expect some friends to be camping on the couch starting tomorrow night. Sure, I’d be cleaning the house sooner or later this week, but a little added incentive influences the timing!
It’s a pretty decadent way to live, on one level. With the move coming, and my “project” (more on that soon), I’m not teaching/working much. My beloved & hugely supportive husband is the foundation for this — but when I left the suit-wearing workaday world, I was willing to do whatever it took to get this life on my own. I’d saved and planned and prepared to sacrifice; getting married was an unexpected gift.
Alot of the people I know who get deeply into yoga do so not because they are mellow/spiritual/peaceful or crunchy/earthy/whatever but in order to heal some or all of the following: body, mind, spirit, emotions, thoughts, ability to just exist in the world.
It’s like some of us need to learn how to survive ourselves. I didn’t get into this because I was sane, but because I was batshit crazy. : ) For me, being able to practice at any level, or be touched in a massage, or have houseguests, without huge dramas of misery and self-mutilation are products of the healing from yoga.
That makes for a good Monday, even if I do need to clean the bathroom later. : )
Tags: Daily Yoga Practice, Healing