Autumn Lotus Yoga

Another powerful Forrest yoga element, especially in teacher training, is finding & sharing “beauty reports.”   This is a practice of noticing something wonderful, joyful, beautiful each day & communicating it to someone else.  Great training for finding delight in the supposedly mundane, and for choosing to focus on something bright & lovely, even (especially!   when things feel dark, cranky, grumpy or generally unsatisfactory.

Heading in this morning to class I was just about vibrating out of my skin for no good reason, wound up & rather annoyed about that & just about everything else. 

Then I spotted her.  Followed someone else’s downward gaze to a pure picture of doggy deliciousness.  Short, squat cream little tyke with big bat ears, bulgy eyes & a perpetual slobbery panty grin.  Heard her owner say she was  French Bulldog.  I fell totally in love with her in that  ”damn, this is so ugly it’s adorable” way reserved for furry critters & certain outfits that I shouldn’t wear in public but do anyway.   Big smile lit me up inside & out every time I looked at her or even now, thinking about her.

This is what a French Bulldog looks like, in case you haven’t seen one.  Not the exact cutie critter that graced the T, but close enough:

In yoga report — great class with Lynne 9:30-11:30.  Been getting fab adjustments from her, including one yesterday that was pretty much chiropractic.  Glad I didn’t know it was coming or I would have totally flinched.   But effective — back is feelin’ good.  Of course, we did get into some deep hip openers combined with forward bends today that had my mind popping out with “HOLY MARY MOTHER OF GOD” multiple times.  I forget sometimes just how many years I spent in Catholic schools & how much that sinks in.   Then total relaxation at the Restorative class with Heather.

Tomorrow, plan is to go to Back Bay again though I let Sunday be a bit of flexy day; maybe home, maybe out, who knows?  Of course, I now will be looking harder for adorable dogs on the T.

Tags: Back Bay Yoga, Daily Yoga Practice, Forrest Yoga

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