Today’s favourite poses: Tiger, Cobra, Child, Warrior I, II
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 10-15
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading: (Taken from At Home in the Muddy Waters by Ezra Bayda)
We all carry with us accumulated grief – not just for people who have died, but for every situation that has ever brought about an intense emotional reaction to loss. Each time we feel loss – of a relationship, of our ideals, and dreams, of our heroes, or of our faith – we’re likely to bury the feelings and erect a layer of armour to protect us from feeling groundlessness, despair, and isolation. This is grief.
At some point, the path of practice brings us face to face with these layers of armouring that keep us constricted and protected in our narrow world. At the time we create these barriers, we might have needed them; perhaps we weren’t yet ready to open up to the intensity of our feelings. Protecting ourselves like this can be a good thing. But if we wish to walk the path of awakening, relaxing into the spaciousness of gratitude and loving-kindness, we need to be able to open fully to loss.
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