Falling

What I love the most about yoga is that it constantly teaches me how to fall and catch myself.

Let's face it: we all fall, one way or another: physically, emotionally, spiritually...life comes with pain incorporated into it. Our work is to learn how to work with pain. To build resilience--physical, mental, emotional. Yoga directly works on our nervous system through the intelligent system of pranayama paired with Asana. This makes us more resiliant, more capable of taking falls, more graceful on the way down and steady in bouncing back, adjusting. Flexibility, strength, resilience, patience--these are all qualities we cultivate in practice. We do it physically, but it's all being mirrored internally. We watch ourselves try, fail, try again. We see how our minds react to each of these and how overtime we become more graceful, more compassionate towards our falls.

On a more mundane level, we literally learn to fall physically without getting hurt. I watch my toddler constantly falling and so persistently trying again. Never doubting he can absolutely learn it if he keeps trying. Yoga makes us young because we get to do that again in the safe environment of our mats, our Shala. We get to fuck up and try again and in that find immense growth off the mat.

Come fall with us daily! Join a class today here.

Inversion Workshop with Braeden Lentz & Bibi Lorenzetti on June 11th at 4pm. Join us for this exploration.