Permission to be flexible

Did you know that on June 21st, it was National Yoga Day? I have to admit, I struggle with yoga. It’s slow, it requires flexibility and a quiet intention that I find challenging. 

I’m pretty sure if you ask my family and co-workers, flexible is not the first word they’d use to describe me. And I’m not talking about my yoga poses - although it’s funny how our bodies imitate our inner workings. 

If you’ve ever taken a yoga class, it can be very intimidating…until you get there. And if you listen to the instructor, it's not a competition nor a test, it's a practice - with yourself. It’s about being in the pose and meeting yourself wherever you are at. A yoga teacher might say the pose begins when you want to leave it. 

Beyond physical flexibility, how do we approach life? How often do we become inflexible to change, to opportunity. What thoughts, beliefs or fears keep us from allowing change. For example, do you believe our bodies will start to break down because we turn 40? Is there something else to that? 

If we could be flexible and try some of those things we never thought we could do, or should do, the things we never considered believing, I wonder how they could heal us? 

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