Yoga is not for bendy people

Yoga is not for bendy people.

Yoga is for everyone! Whether you have a bendy body or liken your body to a stiff unmovable board, yoga can be for you. The body is merely the vehicle for the experience. From the body, we learn about impermanence and possibility as it shifts and changes.

Tight hamstrings are an excellent teacher. While experiencing a challenging pose the work is done on that edge of comfort and discomfort, the dance that exists between complacency, effort, and force. Each of us has our own unique challenges presented to us by our bodies. The bendy body has to work harder to create stability and control with the increased degree of movement. The tight muscled body is challenged to release and surrender resistance and tension. All of this is yoga, the awareness, the connection of mind, body, and spirit and the growth that comes with sustained commitment and practice. It is for this reason that yoga offers rewards and enriches the life for each and EVERY body.

Celebrate your body, experience your life, and live richly.

Horse In Downward Dog

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life.

I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking.

I think that what we’re seeking

is an experience of being alive…

so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

-Joseph Campbell