Open Hearted Warrior at Steadfast and True Yoga: Nashville, TN : July 27, 2016

 Hermitage Hotel, Nashville, TN

Walking to yoga class I felt my heart spontaneously open for real and for "no reason". Hours and lifetimes of practice really do make a difference.

Granted its the first time in a few months I've been off the bus and in a hotel for a few days. A nice fancy hotel with good coffee, no less. While its tempting to dismiss feeling so happy today as simply a good night's sleep, this feels more significant and a deeper shift, a general noticing that my heart is staying open more often and more steady to enjoy this isness of life.

My practice for so many years now has been about grounding. I feel actually safer these days to leave my heart wide open both in and out of a yoga studio.

And what I get to see and experience is never what I think its going to to look like.

We started today's class in fierce pose and hooked our thumbs, bent our elbows and pulled our hearts forward.  My already open heart once again felt new territory reminding me always is a journey into neti neti and the Rig Veda suggests. Not this, not that or another translation (Ravi Ravindra) not yet, not yet.

We did so many wonderful variations of poses it felt in many ways like a very first yoga class and I loved it.

We ended with a supine wide leg legs up the wall, multitasking with an occipital massage over a block, and a wall twist before coming to a final sit.


Heaven.

Namaste.