flowing part 1

there is a reason i teach vinyasa yoga - i love to flow.

i love to weave the breath with the poses, connect,'make' connections and create movement. sometimes i 'arrive' at the place i set our for, other times i don't arrive exactly 'there' but i always arrive (somewhere). that is the fun part of flowing, to allow oneself to flow with the current of the river. we're not salmons who naturally flow against the current of the river!
maybe we're trying to be salmons cause; god forbid, it might be "too easy" to flow with the current, so we need to create that extra challenge of struggling against it??? i think so, we humans love to complicate things, instead of simply following the flow ...

i love spontaneity, but i don't always allow myself to be as spontaneous as i would like to be. well, that is about to change.

i'm into gabrielle roth these days. i pulled out her book that i bought back in 1998
'sweat your prayers.' it's fabulous. gabrielle is a dancer and the book is about the 5 rhythms: flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, stillness. although i read the book back then (i see i have underlined allot), but i can't really remember much of the content. funny, how books come back again at the right time. now it is making so much more sense to me.

here is an excerpt from the book that i read in class thursday last week:

"flowing is the state of being fluid, of hanging loose and being flexible. the rhythm of flowing connects us to the flow of our individual energy, our base current. when we dance long and hard enough to cast off the world's spell, our inner rhythm takes over and we begin to sense who we truly are and how great our potential is. to my mind, michael jordan playing basketball is the essence of flowing. his internal rhythm connects with the energies of the ball, his team, his opponents, and the court, until they all emerge into one organic entity and it becomes as natural for the ball to swoosh through the net as it is for the breath to flow in and out of our bodies.

when we're in our flow, all we have to do is walk across a room to be mesmerizing. we feel confident in ourselves because we're connected to the earth and in harmony with her rhythms, cycles, and moods. in flowing, there are no separations or distractions between things, there's only continuous change.

we tend to resist surrendering to this rhythm because we prefer life to be predictable and safe, even if it means being bored. flowing is dangerous - who knows where it will take you or what you will find when you get there? that's why i love it."

meeee tooo!
she's talking about dancing, but all i'm reading is the essence of yoga.

i aspire to inspire you(and myself included)to:
be daring, find your own flow and just go with it!