All Change

The last year (indeed the last four years) may have felt like being in Groundhog Day with external forces (Twitter, the News) seducing us into states of high alert. If we paid attention to the inner state of our bodies and minds we would have felt such high alert expressed as constant change.

Today a new president of the United States was sworn in. An energy change in the seat of political power.

Much will change externally (Twitter and the News will still be frantic though). What will change internally? State changes will continue to come and go but the the more we practice our Yoga the more they may appear to slow, have less dramatic peaks and valleys or get returned to satvic (centered) states faster. Less drama = less exhaustion. The other good news is that the eternal Supreme in the flame of the heart is unchanging. Utterly reliable. As reliable as the exhale being the last part of the breath cycle you’ll ever participate in.

As Yoga practitioners we are incredibly fortunate to (as Tiffany Carole says) ‘have increasing opportunity for conscious response in the face of uncomfortable volatility and seemingly increasing instability.’ Yoga practices carry us back to balance, back to a soothed nervous system, back to the natural state. A place to respond consciously from.

As ‘problems’ arise in culture, so do keys, clarifications or resolutions - we could say that the practices of Yoga came into being out of the ‘problem’ of (assumed/experienced) separation from the Supreme. Let’s be assured that if we’re feeling problems in the culture (volatility, instability) there is resolution to be found - arising in consciousness… so do your Yoga, listen in and please, please, share your creative solutions with the World. <3<3<3

Thank you for being here.