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Tough Love

Leahm on 6:18 pm July 15th, 2010 / Be the first to comment! »

The wise teacher with whom I took a yoga class this morning said something during class that was, well, wise.  She asked us, as we started into the first of a handful of down dogs, to notice our habits in these “simple” poses.  She said that these habits could teach us things, and that instead of fighting our habits, we should learn from them.  I mumbled something snarky about how these were some pretty tough-love teachers.  Am I right?!  For me, a couple of things, or habits if you will, plague me.  My mid-back is one of them.  Oooh, that mid-back.  It just wants to creep up and out like some kind of inchworm in mid-move instead of lying smooth and integrated like, um, butter?  You get the point.  And I know that what my mid-back habit is teaching me is not that my mid-back is the problem.  I”m working on sourcing that habit’s origins.  So in the (long) meantime, thanks to my wise, external teacher, perhaps I will try harder not to battle and struggle with my didactic habits, but will instead cast a curious ear towards what they have to say to me.