Some days, you’ll find me on a yoga mat.
After all, it makes sense that you’d find a credentialed yoga teacher here, on the mat: breathing and moving through postures that a lineage of human beings have gathered to explore the infinitely expansive tradition we call yoga.
What isn’t so logical (on the surface) is where you are much more likely to find me:
Come walk with me through the forest,
across dirt and rock and gnarled root.
Come walk with me through the forest,
Taking each step
each tender step,
As you will.
Yes, for this particular yogi on a quest to ever-explore the depths of the human experience on this Planet Earth, you are much more likely to find me out here:
Come walk with me through the forest….
The forest
Isn’t it a wonderous space to take those steps? Rooting down, each step taking you into another movement into life, expressing fully. Yes, it is a wondrous space to be immersed within an infinite web of interwoven beings, nestled in together, living together in a dynamic state of equilibrium. Living together in connection.
The forest, with all it’s enlivening energy, is my preferred arena to explore my yoga. It’s a space where I can move and breathe and be freely, as self, in connection to a web of life that expands far beyond self.
Being. Here in the forest as I take it all in:
Everything around me.
Everything that is within me.
Ever learning the deepest truth at the bottom of it all:
That we are one in the same.
The yoga tradition teaches us that we can explore all of this on the mat.
There is a wild truth to this. Here, simply as you. Here, in this space: standing, sitting, laying, being in the space that you are in.
Closed off to the world, a rectangle that is your temple as you move and breathe and come to heal and transform and know what you are meant to on this day.
Moving. Breathing.
Perhaps it is all you need to unlock the secrets that you long for on this day. Perhaps not.
Some days, I like to move within the space that is a boundaried yoga mat. I like to teach from this space. It simplifies things. It allows for a clear container for exploration.
And, I like to teach in this, shall I call it, grander arena.
Come walk with me through the forest,
across dirt and rock and gnarled root.
Come walk with me through the forest,
Taking each step
each tender step,
As you will.
Join me in The Forest: Our sacred space for practicing The Embodied Path:
Forest Body Temple – Earth Embodiment, A Grounded Spirituality