Sat Nam,

Why do they call yoga a practice?  What are we practicing for?  To be more flexible, sing mantra better, be a better yogi on our mats?

❌No.

✅We practice on our mats to prepare us to deal with all that  life brings our way.

And why do we need to practice?

Because life can be hard.

Life is unpredictable and uncertain and it can be very difficult sitting with the uncomfortableness of uncertainty if we haven’t practiced being vulnerable.

Brené Brown says vulnerability is the foundation of all connection.

If you want those deep relationships, to live wholehearted lives you must be prepared to be vulnerable.

Why prepared?

Because being vulnerable means opening up and exposing yourself and that can  be hard as you have to take your armour off and risk, pain, failure, judgment, fear and disappointment.

So what does your mat have to do with all of this?

It’s the practice of sitting with your vulnerability as you’re challenged, it’s the practice of dealing with the unpredictability of what comes up, it’s the practice of sitting with the uncomfortableness that will prepare you to sit with all this that will come up in life and deal with it in a way that best serves you. 

If you were in a play you would rehearse and rehearse before show time because show time is uncertain and unpredictable and the more you practice the more you will be prepared to navigate through the uncertainty of what the live show may bring.

If you were a sportsperson you  would train and train before game day, same reason.

So it makes sense that we need a training ground for life and for me that is my mat.

Every challenging posture, breath, meditation is designed to bring up your crap, teach you how to be vulnerable and sit with uncertainty in order for you to move through stuff and connect in.

What a gift!  The more I practice the more I’m prepared for life.

Next time you’re on your mat I invite you to take a step back and observe what comes up when you are challenged and how you react and see if it’s how you react to the challenges that arise in life.  If it is and it doesn’t serve you practice changing your pattern on your mat to change your pattern in life.

As the Green Day song says:

“It’s something unpredictable but in the end is right.  I hope you had the time of your life.”

My classes this week:

?‍♀️9.30am Monday

?‍♀️6.30pm Tuesday

?‍♀️9.30am Thursday

See you on the mat. ❤️

Love,

Adette