Heart-Center

Heart-center

my yoga practice seems to provide some larger lessons lately, and right now it’s two particular poses that have expressed something important for me to remember and incorporate more frequently in my life. Both of these postures have the same issue of heart centered balance and the grace found through trust and letting go. There is a tendency of leading with my head with Standing Bow pose as well as with Warrior Three and almost instantly I find myself moving a little to quickly in my lean forward, unable to establish a true, sure, sense of balance and power, falling from position and having to restart the pose. Yet when I remember to lean forward from the heart-center, trusting in the intuitive wisdom of my body’s natural grace and desire for balance — I enter both postures with assurance and ease, fully expressing the power of my heart throughout every aspect of each pose.

it’s a beautiful thing to experience.

my life is often lived through the mind, thinking and then rethinking again certain issue until I lead with a head centered posture of expectations that seldom meet my true goals and wishes. Or sometimes it’s an impulsive thought turned to action that immediately leaves me far from my original intent, off balanced, and unsure of my stance. It’s not that thinking is wrong here, planning is important and needed for its follow through. But there is wisdom throughout the body, an intuitive balance that shouldn’t be ignored. The lesson for me is to listen to the whole expression of the body, hearing my heart-center’s…