🍃MORNING FLOW🍃
Me. Waking up, walking out onto the porch, a..
🕑 Added 2020-09-07 13:15:30 +0000 UTC
🍃MORNING FLOW🍃
Me. Waking up, walking out onto the porch, and doing some mindful movement first thing in the morning. Each morning is a new day. They certainly don't always start like this, but today I made it to my mat, and I am proud of myself.
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Fun story about my history with yoga: I've always loved working out and being physically active, but I truthfully thought I didn't like yoga because it was "too slow" for me, a y o u n g, vivacious adult full of life and urges to do endless hours of cardio whether it was by playing volleyball or going to underground deep house shows... Despite attending countless yoga classes my y o u n g adult life and being f o r c e d by my Buddhist family growing up (seriously, I remember being f o r c e d to do yoga and meditation as a kiddd and wanting to run away from it every single time), I felt my mind drifting, daydreaming about anything but where I was and what I was doing in that moment. Not surprisingly, I have anxiety which if any of you do too, makes your mind feel like an endless whirlpool of thought whether real or fabricated. This anxiety would show up when I sloweddd down. In all honesty, it wasn't until the pandemic that I truly was able to reverse this and see that slowing down actually helped make sense of the thoughts. It wasn't until we were f o r c e d to be still in life, in society, that I was able to come to terms with my anxiety with yoga. I've been doing A LOT of inner work, shadow work and whatever else requires looking deep within yourself to finally heal what I thought was broken, and I have a newfound love + appreciation for things I once thought weren't for me. My relationship with things I thought I "disliked" has been molded into something of a dyadic beauty. ☯ Thanks for listening to my little story. You are loved.
