What's the primary reason for health and longevity?
It's not genetics, exercise or even nutrition. Scientific studies reveal that for the average person, it's their thought life.
While on first look, yoga can appear to be another exercise modality, but even after a few meetings on the mat, you may find there's something far more powerful going on. Yoga asana (the practice of physical postures and only one aspect of yoga in its entirety), teaches aligning breath with movement and with that we create ability and skill to become more present in our lives. When we are able to be present, we also become aware of our self talk and that negative stuff that makes up our thought life. Hmmmmm.
When we choose to practice yoga, we are choosing to act upon an impulse to take care of ourselves. No small thing. We become grateful. We connect to our breath and to our body, aware of how both show up so that we can live our lives. We begin taking different care of ourselves, we begin to embrace our life and it begins to change our thought life. Yoga is a practice by which we meet up with all we are. It reveals our strengths, it reveals our challenges. It reveals negativity in ourselves. It reveals the way we think and speak about others. It kindly shows us another way and a much kinder, more loving, more forgiving narrative. We choose instead to dwell on goodness and growth. We choose positive over negative and it becomes like a wash of light in our world that will always need more light.
Turn on the light.
Jill 💡
See you on your mat.
May it be a place of molding and making.
May it be a place of acceptance and inspiration.
May it be a place where letting go of the stuff that we can't change happens.
May it be a place where we grip less and breathe more.
May it be a place where honesty meets transformation.
May it be a place where performance never enters.
May it be place where we release old patterns.
May it be a place where you come home to you and find you love who you are.
May it be a place where you know you are fearfully and wonderfully made.
May it be a place of thanksgiving.