Your meditative journey will be in two directions at once-inward and outward. To the degree that you come out of your head and are present in your body, you will see what to aim for in the tangible world. You will see what direction to take, how far to go, when to push and when to surrender. As you journey inward, you reflect your light outward.
Adho Mukha Svanasana, Downward facing dog.
Smaill children aren’t posing or posturing. They are just being. You can always tell when someone is posturing in a yoga pose. Just let yourself be natural. Naturalness starts with a willingness to come out from behind the mask: posturing less, letting go more, and just letting the light shine through us. This light is an invisible force that reaps visible results, ultimately allowing us to shine.
Next time you are in Downward facing dog let the layers of tension fall away one by one. Let go, drop your head, drop your brain, and breathe- just being and breathing deep and free. Your ujjayi breath should be rhythmic, with an oceanic power.
Balasana, Child pose
Sometimes the storms of life can literally bring us to our knees. This pose gives us the opportunity for spiritual surrender, to realize that “of myself, I can do nothing, but there is a power in me than can.” We spend our whole lives resisting the idea of surrender; we see it as weakness, as giving up. Then suddenly we hit a point where we realize that the moment of “letting go” is not when life is over. It is when life really begins.
I read this words in Journey into power by Baron Baptiste and I like to think of it when I’m on my knees on balasana.
