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Return to Equilibrium

 

Recently someone returned to a yoga class after a long break. By the end of class, it was easy to see that something had altered. It was obvious that she enjoyed the experience and that something had shifted, like a weight had lifted from her shoulders. Her face was beaming, her shoulders broad and relaxed. So, I asked her, “Apart from Covid lockdowns, what had kept her away?”. Her response was typical to what I usually hear. When I ask others, the typical response to this question is, ‘work demands’, ‘family demands’ or ‘health reasons. At some stage in our lives, these concerns affect many of us. So, it is understandable that when life gets turned on its head that our routines get interrupted. We may feel we have no time for yoga as our attention and energy lies elsewhere. I know this all too clearly myself, over my long years of being a student; I too had interruptions to my practice.

 

When these demands take over it is very easy to drop the very things that support and sustain us like our yoga practice. If we are not careful, without us even realising, a new routine emerges where we have come to neglect our needs. We give and give, to others, to our work and forget to take stock and be nourished. But if we don’t nourish ourselves, we can soon become depleted. Before too long this can become our new ‘normal way of being and feeling’. Our body feels tight and restricted, our mind feels cramped and yet we surprising we adapt to this new condition. Does this sound familiar? Have you woken up one day and wondered what happened, and asked yourself why do I feel so stressed, tired, etc?

 

If we are fortunate, we are reminded, (perhaps from a deep knowing, a gut feeling within), that this is not what we want and that we can return to equilibrium. Even when life gets busy, when we feel we have no time for yoga, may I suggest that’s precisely when we need yoga the most. Our yoga practice is there to support and renew us in good times and especially when life makes untimely demands. Its’ the regularity of the practice that upholds us.

 

From my past experiences as a student, returning to yoga after some interruption, I felt a sense of coming home. Lying on the mat I knew I would be nourished. I knew then as I know now this is the place where tension begins to dissolve, where I will be restored, where I can find peace and equilibrium. 

If life’s demands have interrupted your practice, I encourage you to return to equilibrium, be renewed, and find nourishment in your yoga practice. As for the student I spoke about, you guessed it……. she is back enjoying a regular practice.