Recently I found myself returning to yoga.
I was an passionate yogi for the whole decade of the 90's and then something changed. I got out of the groove. I was traveling a lot for business and I started running--it was a great way to enjoy the cities I was traveling to and when I got home (I was now living in a neighborhood actually part of the San Gabriel National Forest) I spent time hiking. Even when my traveling stopped, I was so hooked on hiking I never really got back into the yoga thing.
Recently I found myself returning to yoga.
I got into it when I felt this big shift in my own ascending energy and the pivot point of integrating upper and lower chakras. I noticed the center part of my back just felt STUCK. I couldn't twist it easily and it didn't move too much. My upper back and hips were loose and open, but the middle wouldn't budge. I had a great massage, all timed with the big energy coming in the first weekend of June and my 48th birthday and suddenly the whole thing reconnected: I was moving and integrated from head to toe!
Bliss! Then yoga. Interesting because last time the sequence went: yoga> meditation> bliss! This time it went the other way in terms of yoga. However it happens though, I realize that my yoga practice is an essential component of my being thriving. Flexibility is underrated in life. But in the spiritual and energetic experiences we find ourselves in these days, it's worth reconsidering. A flexible body makes for a flexible mind and heart. With all the releasing and transforming I'm doing yoga is supporting me. My circulation is better, I sleep soundly and through the night, and the practice of focus has already made a noticeable impact on my channeling and meditation.
Yoga is also known to improve digestion and elimination and have you ever noticed how youthful people are who are flexible? Isn't stiffness--of thought, of energy, of body--one of the things we associate with aging? And I have nothing against time passing--I'm 48 and proud! But I don't want getting older in years to mean less fluent, less engaged. I choose to live a leading edge life which means involved, energetic, curious, informing myself about the world, the Omniverse and participating in it!
The other thing which I'm reflecting on about yoga is that an open body, supports openness in general. Openness and honesty are keys to intimacy, to happiness between people. The willingness and the openness to have the hard discussions, to embrace change, to love and be loved--all of this involves openness and to live in our heart, to come from our higher heart chakra, requires openness--to our energy, to our impulses, to our inspiration. Yoga reminds me that my body being open and flexible liberates the rest of me to be this way.
My physical body has gone through the grueling aspects of ascension which take a toll on most of us physically. I also had mercury toxicity and then adrenal fatigue which was diagnosed a couple of years ago and is now gone. After all of this, I've emerged from a honest-to-goodness metamorphosis. I'm in a totally new life experience and now putting together a new lifestyle as an expression of my new found multidimensionality and discovering what it means and how to live fully aligned with emerging new fifth dimensional human. I'm creating my own template for this. I'm learning how to live aware of multiple lifetimes, and to craft a love-filled, light-oriented way of being in the world and I chose yoga to be a major piece of that.
I'm meant to have a beautiful, thriving, expressive, flexible, pleasure filled amazingly radiant physical body! My body is a living vessel of light and information, flowing love and tapped into All-That-Is, the grid-lines of the Earth and it is the source of all-knowing! Plus I'm here--I'm on the planet, a timeless, eternally valid spiritual being, having this and other versions of a physical experience. And in this life, I choose yoga. Yoga is a going to be a key element for facilitating my expression within All-That-Is and riding the ascending energy. I embrace my practice with enthusiasm and love!
