A Caminhante

So, I’ve decided to put my yoga practice on hold. After 7 years of ashtanga, I switched to yin yoga (for about two weeks) and currently I am practically not practicing at all except for the few poses that I do on my mat. It may sound odd why on earth would I leave behind something so important to me. Truthfully speaking, I am not. I’m not leaving yoga. I am leaving the way I used to see yoga and how I felt I should live it. There’s a saying from Master Yoda where he advises us to “let go of everything we fear to lose”. I had almost always been afraid of losing everything that I thought my body had accomplished. The strength, the flexibility, the dynamic, the discipline. All these things that I believed were making me an amazing person. The thing is I was never better nor worse because of it. We use our body to go deeper like a kind of temple that we have to gain access in order to realize things about ourselves that otherwise we probably would have missed. I am so glad that my yoga...

“O que prevalece agora é essa maneira nova de sentir a vida. Essa perspectiva que me faz admirar, incansáveis vezes, antigas preciosidades. (…) O que prevalece agora é essa apreciação mais desperta, que me permite reinaugurar flores e céus e pessoas no meu olhar. Essa graça que encontro, de graça, nos detalhes mais singelos. (…) Os problemas, os desafios, as limitações, não deixaram de existir. De ixaram apenas de ocupar o espaço todo.” Ana Jácomo (Jornalista e Escritora Brasileira) #internagrowth #ashtangayoga #anajacomo #sirsasana