Weight Weight Just Love Me – Twisted Authenticity – Day 9

Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT

Did learning to teach yoga enable me to love more deeply and thus become a better photographer?  This picture captures the leave shower of autumn in SE Alaska.

Did learning to teach yoga enable me to love more deeply and thus become a better photographer? This picture captures the leave shower of autumn in SE Alaska.

I was reading an article the other day about how yoga helps you become more compassionate towards all other beings because of all the different ways you twist your spine.  Your spine is the central access of your body and this makes sense as all the nerve endings come out from your spinal column and extend out to all other parts of your body.  Getting in better touch with what it feels like to be in your body extends empathy out to every other living thing and how they experience reality in their form.  It’s a very interesting article.  Won’t repeat it all – click here to read more.

My purpose in bringing this up is in assessing my own level of authenticity in fully loving how I currently inhabit this body and how it helps me interact with the world around me.  I like to do my yoga practice every morning – but some mornings I don’t seem to find the time for it.  And those mornings that I do make the time for it – I wonder to myself what is different this morning then yesterday morning when I did not make the time to do my yoga practice?  I feel so much more connected to myself and therefore to everything else I do throughout the day. It seems to me doing my daily morning yoga practice could be as natural for me to do as eating breakfast – which I also skipped yesterday.

Being authentically me, yes I’m going to have different approaches to each day.  And yes somedays I’m going to start out the day doing my yoga practice and some days I won’t.  It does seem more often than not, I do start the day off with my yoga practice.  A friend I now only see several times a year even commented to me the other day I seem so much more at ease and in my body since I became a yoga teacher.  So, while I could be “more disciplined” (can’t we all) – I am doing sufficient yoga for others to see observable changes in how I move through the world and relate to others.

My friend’s feedback was nice as it’s not really something I have given much thought to – but I do see what is mentioned in the first paragraph about finding it easier to connect with others and I do more deeply appreciate the world all around me – could this be because of more conscious awareness of my body due to yoga?  This improved connectedness is starting to show up in some interesting ways – from the difference in what I’m noticing to take pictures of and how it’s improved my photography, to the ease in which I’m moving through what used to be challenging transitions with staff changes in the company.  Twisting every which way with yoga on a routine basis is helping me approach my world with greater authenticity for how my presence is the loving, connected person I know deep inside I really am.

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