http://boundlessyoga.com/2009/06/10/i-crave-them-like-tastes/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:07:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://boundlessyoga.com/2009/06/10/i-crave-them-like-tastes/comment-page-1/#comment-5085 carolyn Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:54:04 +0000 http://boundlessyoga.com/?p=2144#comment-5085 Kim I do understand that envy and attachment and sense of loss. As I have gotten older and as I have worked with injuries, I have "lost" poses. A way of working with my envy of others "having" poses I cannot "have' came once while I was in class next to John Schumacher and while my knee would not let me do lotus, John was in a beautiful lotus pose. I thought: there is my lotus pose, he is doing it for me, for all of us. I no longer felt bereft and discovered in myself that when I have that kind of envy it comes from a contracted sense of self. Not only was I able to enjoy the pose in John, I was able to feel the effects of groundedness and release that I would have felt had my own legs created the pose. My yoga again and again asks me to open and expand that sense of self. Carolyn Kim
I do understand that envy and attachment and sense of loss. As I have gotten older and as I have worked with injuries, I have “lost” poses. A way of working with my envy of others “having” poses I cannot “have’ came once while I was in class next to John Schumacher and while my knee would not let me do lotus, John was in a beautiful lotus pose. I thought: there is my lotus pose, he is doing it for me, for all of us. I no longer felt bereft and discovered in myself that when I have that kind of envy it comes from a contracted sense of self. Not only was I able to enjoy the pose in John, I was able to feel the effects of groundedness and release that I would have felt had my own legs created the pose.
My yoga again and again asks me to open and expand that sense of self.
Carolyn

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