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| Hadji, The Yoga Teacher |
Hadgi wanted us to try headstands in yoga class last night. Now, normally I don't like to do inversions in yoga where I can't see my feet. It makes me feel nervous. However, last night I felt fearless and motivated to move so I let Hadji support me in a headstand. Hadji told me to make a basket for my head by interlacing my fingers to support the crown of my head. Then he instructed me to use the strength of my abdominals to get my legs up over top of my head. I did this and my legs ended up being over my head supported by the wall in the proper headstand position. I stood on my head last night and all I could think of was that my recently post pregnant, fat, jelly of a stomach was on display for the whole class to see. That is not the point of doing yoga.
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| The headstand sequence |
Later that night as I was breathing in downward facing dog on my yoga mat it occurred to me that I was right where I needed to be. I was in the moment focusing on my mind, body and spirit. I try to take a yoga class 1-2 times per week to work on my flexibility but lately it's been more of my saving grace. Yoga brings me full circle into who I am. Yoga allows me to shed all of the pressure of being a superwoman. It allows me to escape from being a business owner. It allows me to shake off the daily disruptions of a plethora of text messages, emails and phone calls. It allows me to embrace being a woman and of course a mother. All of my yoga teachers inspire me to become one with who I am and one with the universe...this is the point of yoga.
A quote taken from Hadji's face book page:
"I was teaching headstand 2day and 1 of my students who was in it correctly toppled over."
Me: "You don't trust yourself"
Student:"No"
"Know that The Uni-verse is always for, and never against you. Can you say the same thing about your own mind?"
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ReplyDeleteas i was going up into headstand the thought "trust yourself" kept ringing in my head. but i drowned it out with the negative nancy who lives up there too. Watching Hadji swing his legs in the air with little effort gave me some hope but i kept thinking..."i can't do it, i don't have enough core strength. sure, you can get your cute little bottom in the air Hadji but these mama hips ain't going up ..."
and then what do you know ...a little effort and a little support from Hadji and I was up. yay! looking forward to the next class.
-Jazmyn
Jazmyn, class was great last night. You also helped me to feel empowered to go into the headstand. I normally would have bowed out but this year I am a new woman! I'm glad you were there and I can't wait for the next class too.
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