There's a great saying that says "The iron sharpens the iron" and I interpret that phrase to mean that we strengthen each other. I hear the need for bonding and community or unity when that phrase comes to mind.
If I appear to be human it is because I am.
Everything that I know I've learned and I have had some pretty incredible teachers along the way. There were lessons that I needed to learn the "hard" way and others that came easy to me, like yoga and meditation for instance.
I want to remind you that the same agitation that you feel or have felt sitting still in meditation has happened to me as well. I too have struggled to sit in a posture and hold it without shaking and sweating. I too was where you are and you know what I let the iron do? I let it sharpen me.
I found yoga at a time when I truly felt empty-handed, can you relate? I didn't have much going on for myself and there were a lot of things that were unresolved and compartmentalized from my past that I allowed to keep me stagnant and at a standstill.
The first yoga class I attended I cried in savasana. Now if you've never taken a yoga class just know that savasana (pronounced sah-vah-sah-nah) is the last pose that's done at the very end of the class. It is where you lay on your back and be completely still like a corpse.
This pose is used for integration and reflection. I had never moved my body in this way. My chest opened and my eyes filled with tears. My hips screamed out to me and I silently wept.
This was the very first experience that led me to become the first black-owned yoga studio owner in Birmingham, Alabama years later. I know that if I was holding things in and not processing them there were people like me doing the same thing. I knew that if I made it out on top I could clear the path for someone else to do the same.
I offer peace of mind from my perspective, let the iron sharpen the iron --- come see me on the mat virtually or in person sometime shortly. You deserve safe spaces to process, digest, and decompress and Inglenook Yoga provides that.
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