The steps and yoga postures have so many things in
common. But the biggest and most
foundational similarity is that they both hold everything we could possibly need
for our maximum growth. They are
the place where we find our growing edges and work past them. They unlock the great magic of Divinity
within us. I was explaining in
meeting full of people that I had experienced some depression in my first year
of sobriety and that there was an undeniable correlation between making my
final amends (of this list) and a genuine freedom and joy that broke out in my
life. I had made it to step 9 in
earlier periods of sobriety but had always thrown in the towel somewhere around
the first or second amends(fishy?
Nooooo wayyy!! :P). I would
find my edge and I would back down, back away, pull out right before true and
lasting growth was about to be anchored.
This can be true on my mat as well, like the day I found my edge in prayer
twist and decided to try to move through
it… and almost without effort, I floated up into side-crow. I
literally laughed out loud in class because it was so shocking to me that I had
played small for who knows how much time that I could have been in side
crow. Whether it soaring into the freedom that is on the other side of an
amends or soaring into the freedom of side crow, it’s all the same, it’s the
place of bliss that exists just past our growing edges.
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