http://boundlessyoga.com/2009/06/10/i-crave-them-like-tastes/ Boundless Yoga Studio is a yoga studio in Washington, DC that welcomes everyone. Our yoga focus is on alignment, breath, natural movement and stillness. We offer hybrid styles of yoga designed to foster transformation in the body. Tue, 15 May 2012 03:11:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 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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