YES!!! Day 14. Two things happen today that I love. First, I'm done teaching at 1:30pm and second, my favorite Bikram Yoga teacher has a 2pm class down the street. Let me be very real. I'm exhausted. It's been a long week. The largest part of me wants to procrastinate and do the 8pm class. Luckily the other part of me realizes that if I get this done now, the rest of the day belongs to me and only me. So I head to the hot yoga studio.
And there's Georgia. I've talked about her before in my blog. This woman is a master. Amazing person. Amazing instructor. She commands your attention in a way that always brings out the best in everyone. Once I see her, I know that this will be another special experience. The midday classes are always fun at the midtown studio because it's always sprinkled with some Broadway dancers and other performers with freakish flexibility. It adds an extra element of excitement, focus and discipline to the workout. I count 4 guys with amazing bodies. A little eye candy doesn't hurt when you're in a 105 degree room for 90 minutes of semi torture.
I notice right away that everything about me is calmer. Knowing you're in great hands does have that effect I think. But almost at the midway point of the challenge, I'm learning the simple act of acceptance. It is what it is at any moment in a class like this. So instead fighting it, I go with the flow. I've been working on staying present, staying focused, finding the breath and letting go and seeing where the practice takes me with no expectations.
About half way through class, Georgia starts to discuss how our body is only a vessel for our Soul. "Everything changes" she says. "Only the Soul remains the same." Yoga practice is a way to clear away the cobwebs so that we can have greater clarity into who we really are.
Living in a city that is as energy consuming as New York and moving at the frenetic pace of my daily life had definitely taken its toll. How could I have lost the most important connection to who I am? But then I realize that it doesn't really matter how it happened. The past is the past. Everything around us does change. How willing am I to change? I do know this for sure. Change is so much easier when you have clarity.
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