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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Practicing Perfection

Soozie Kinstler has been practicing yoga for 10 years.  She has struggled with body issues, addictions and lack of esteem for most of her life.  She has found that yoga practice has been great medicine for her.  It has taught her  to connect with herself as a whole: mind, body and spirit.  

The physical practices of Yoga can be a a doorway to understanding how one views the world and also oneself.  The practice allows an examining, a reflection on attributes and patterns that cause stagnation.  Learning to choose habits creates release and joy.  The tools one learns on the mat are very practical for every moment of existence.  Yoga has the power to create perfection, or at least shift perception for moments.  So one may see the possibility of perfection in the inner world and outer world.
 
When I first started practicing yoga it allowed me to connect to a unflawed aspect in myself that I had experienced before but not continuously.  In discovering my limitations I learned the way my mind spoke to myself and realized that the limitations did not necessarily start in my body but in my mind.  I realized that I had a critical, analytic, comparing mind.  In realizing this I thought it was something I had to "get rid' of or "change".  Overtime with consistent practice an acceptance started awakening within me.  Which has helped me develop a love for myself I am not sure I ever had.  Granted sometimes I forget this love, which makes my practice so much more important.
 
Whatever reasons you come to your mat make it your own.  No matter what type of movement you are doing you can embed it with an intention linked to the focus of the mind and move through whatever holds you back from seeing yourself as complete.  You can approach your limitations with a fierce-ness, a go-getter attitude.  To defeat and conquer if you will.  Or you can soften into all that you are.  The mind stuff, the heart blockages, the physical restrictions and gracefully learn to love it all.  There is no right or wrong way on how you choose to meet yourself more deeply.  Yoga is seeing perfection and sameness in an imperfect world.  Are you ready to study yourself?  Let go, defeat or just BE?

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