Easing Into

Easing;

it seems I’m easing into spring with less pain and a more fluid sense of body, my back injury noticeably improving each morning as I approach my once again comprehensive yoga asana routine. There’s a growing sense of joy as I leave this painful aspect of winter behind and regain my mobility just in time for warmer days of spring’s activities. My earlier walks are longer and I find myself running more in my afternoon excursions.

each day I’m easing more into a joyful body.

leaving a pain filled winter behind.

or at least I hope that’s so, at a certain age an injury’s recovery is never fully guaranteed and this is an old and reoccurring one for me. Yet I am optimistic by nature and attempting to be smarter in my approach to healing, not rushing into the things I used to do, but viewing things through a wiser body, more patient now, and willing to ease into a sense of comfort.

oddly though, it was only when I expanded my asana sessions to include the postures that brought be the most challenge that I began to see my greatest improvements. Almost instantly it seemed that pain subsided by a large degree and with its return each morning was lesser by degrees. Through at first this felt like an impatient rush into a more comprehensive practice, it turns out that it was an intuitive call for my body to return to what it…