It's been two weeks since I have gone to a class at the studio. And two months since I have used my bike. Today I decided to do both. It was great. Rough, and great.
When I came home I started thinking about how I would respond if someone were to ask me why I do yoga. Why I think yoga is so healthy, is a whole ordeal of a response; but why I do yoga? I do it because I want to feel physically capable of anything.
And upon that thought, I realized, how many times I've recently said "I can't do that yet." about certain asanas (yoga poses). And when I see pictures of doing headstands and handstands with their legs flailing about in all sorts of ways and maybe only a finger touching the ground, I think, when I can do THAT, then I'll feel physically capable of it all!
BUT!!!
I already am capable! I am physically capable of ANYTHING! I may be rusty, since I haven't used my abs so much lately, or that killer part of my quads right above the knee, and I need practice with them to grow their strength. But I am already, 100% capable of any crazy yoga poses I see, and any other physical challenge.
So those yoga poses I haven't yet gotten into, I'm gonna start trying to get into more often. A lot of times I think about them as poses I'll be able to get into when I get stronger from doing other, more beginner poses. And it's true that the strength I'll gain from those will help me in the more challenging ones.
"I haven't failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
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