Springtime Yoga Immersion and Cleanse

Springtime Yoga Immersion and Cleanse

In her fabulous book, EAT, PRAY, LOVE, Elizabeth Gilbert recounts a story where a friend told her that Life's metaphors are God's lessons. Last night after yoga, I got an interesting lesson that relates to our practice.

Last weekend I bought an iPod. I've never been a "toy" person and the idea of "distinctions in sound quality" has always seemed a little over-critical to me (talk about "over critical!"). How wrong can one person be??!! I love my iPod. Totally.

Last night I was trying to set up a gizmo to play my Nano in the car. Without bothering to put on my glasses, I was trying to fit a small plastic jacket into the top of a bracket. No go. No go. No go. Does not fit. Does not work. Must need to return the blasted thing!!

After many minutes of frustration, I got my glasses and still couldn't make it work. Half an hour later, experimentaly I pulled up on the top of the bracket and found that what I thought was part of the piece actually was an adapter already in place. After it was removed, the necesary adapter slipped into place without a murmur of protest.

How like our lives! There's so much we don't need that fills our Selves and our time. Getting rid of the excess, cleansing ourselves of toxins, trying to shed bad habits and turn loose of resentments creates openings for what's necessary and useful.

We did a lot of hip openers in the lunar class last night. Seems more than my hips opened while practicing within our precious community.

Namaste,
Jerri