It was a warm sunny morning in a yoga studio on the West side of Manhattan. I was grateful to take a class while I was in town. We were doing some inversions and arm balances against the wall, a personal favorite of mine, when all of a sudden I found myself out of my practice and fixed on some one else's; a common strategy for struggle is vacating your body and fixating on something or someone else. It was one of those practices that felt impossible to focus.
As everyone else was practicing their sequence of handstand splits to scissors pose or some variation of it, I sat there with my jaw wide open staring at a woman masterfully moving from the inversion to the arm balance. Immediately I went into my story, justifying to myself why I am still not able to do the sequence: " my hips are to tight" " my core is not strong enough", "I can't bend my elbows like that". The list kept growing. READ MORE
