Rooting tree pose and Iyengar's big toe: Nava Yoga: St. Petes Beach, FL: February 5, 2016

I love practicing at Nava yoga because there is a community there. The teachers are good, but its the friendly and warm practitioners that really makes taking classes there a lot of fun. There's something grounding and wonderful and comforting about being part of something bigger.

Maybe its the community or maybe its the instruction of the foot placement in tree that allowed me to connect deeper than ever before in the pose. On the standing foot, lift up your toes, and from the pinky side lower each toe one by one.

I'm reminded of what sage Iyengar once said. "If you can't know your big toe, how can  you expect to know God". The Truth is we are always supported and always in the company of those who nurture our soul. We might not see it, and most times I do not. Its easier for me to see it in a community yoga studio. Perhaps that's one reason I'm so drawn to attending yoga classes.

For consciously I'm trying to learn how to be in relationship-a good wife, friend, daughter, band member, spiritual being- all these roles life is requiring at the moment. Iyengar also said "one’s spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one’s fellow beings." This morning I've learned a lot about my toes and feet and heart's path.

Its the Yoga, not the yoga that sculpts me and holds me steady in the shape of my life. It is really true, when I am in that place and you are in that place, we are One.




Namaste.