I need to come clean about something.
I haven’t had a regular āsana of practice for… well… several years.
Gone are the days when I would easily practice five to seven classes a week at Jivamukti Yoga Sydney, often 90 minutes each, sometimes even doubles.
Maybe it’s because that studio is no longer there and I am no longer there.
Maybe it’s because of COVID and the interruption it caused in all of our lives.
Maybe it’s the fact that I’m older. My body has changed and I have encountered some injuries along the way.
It’s probably all of these things and more.
For a while I tried to fill the yoga shaped hole in my life with Pilates. I even became a reformer teacher!
And while I enjoyed the mindful movement, it never satiated me spiritually. Something was always missing.
But I am happy to say that I have fallen head-over-heels back in love again with yoga, especially Jivamukti, and I am taking I’m taking steps towards rebuilding my practice.
Down here in Tassie, there is only one other Jivamukti yoga teacher and she happens to be my wife, Sas. So I’ve been making it a priority to get to her class every Saturday morning, which is always wonderful.
Then this week just passed, my close friend Keith Kempis was visiting as a guest teacher on my teacher training, and I had the privilege of practicing with him, which was just amazing.
On Monday I felt the call to practice my own sequence that I am teaching this week, and so I hired a room at my local gym, brought my yoga mat over and laid it out to practice (I’m unable to practice at home because my dog will not allow me to).
And then yesterday morning I practiced a recording with one of my teachers, Lady Ruth, which made me feel so connected and contented.
There was a particular teaching Lady Ruth shared, which really stuck with me:
“If you have a really long, deep practice and then, for whatever reason, there’s some time away from it, it’s there. Even the cells remember it. The mind is everywhere. And so you can reconnect, you can feel all every practice that you’ve ever done, actually. Every teaching that you’ve ever had, every time you’ve ever remembered, it accumulates. and as it accumulates, your human potential unfolds. That’s why in the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna says no effort is ever lost. It’s not lost.”
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