Yoga’s become a loaded word, right? It means so many different things to so many different people. From a workout to a way to orgasm, it’s taken on a life of it’s own. It used to be something people did in pyjamas to start their day. Now its become a multimillion dollar business that promises enlightenment through a nice tight butt.
What the heck happened?
We forgot. Yoga is not about distinguishing yourself from the beauties around you. It’s about bringing all that beauty into you, making it all a part of you and recognizing your neighbor in yourself.
We’ve forgotten that it’s not about doing the pose better. It’s about feeling better in the pose. We stopped reminding ourselves and each other that t’s not about getting your heart rate up as you race through a practice. It’s about feeling relaxed and steady in a demanding practice so that you can be relaxed and steady as you move into the more demanding postures of your life.
So yoga is about you and the collective us. When we allow the insecurities that follow us around in our personal world to drop away as we practice, we discover an openness of spirit that brings us into our divinity. Sounds like a lot right?
But it’s not really. It’s merely who you are and who you are meant to be. And when you can take even a few moments, even a yoga class to realize that, you touch your creative center and the ideas start to flow.
Next time you sit down on your mat, let your life off the mat fade. Arrive fully. Stay present and let your practice help you discover a connection to yourself that takes you to that creative spirit inside.
The very willingness to let go of the barriers around the universal experience of being present will open your mind to new, exciting creative ideas. Slowly, we’ll stop judging ourselves so harshly, release stored tension, trauma and negativity, and move into our creative genius and capability. That’s the practice. Through movement, presence and stillness, we allow ourselves to open the vastness of our subconscious creative mind. The ideas that have been waiting to blossom, can freely open and flower.
So does yoga help you become a creative spirit? I say yes. Hell yes. Yoga allows you to be you.