Every body is different - choosing your edge

Question 1

1. Every body is different, finding your edge based on body awareness

Answer 1

1. Every body is different, finding your edge based on body awareness
   • As we move through our practice today, make an informed choice in each of your poses.
   • Take in what your body is saying
   • Building your body awareness and honouring how we place our bodies, how the poses make our body feel

Question 2

2. Nature, our body is cyclical

Answer 2

2. Nature, our body is cyclical
   • We need to pay more attention to the seasonality of the body
   • Not taking the same variations of the same pose
   • Rather, I invite you to choose what shape matches your body’s needs at this moment

Question 3

3. Crow – ignoring the machinations of the mind.

Answer 3

• Focusing away from the ego and toward your body. What does it need right here and now.
• Maybe your edge today is crow with the strength and vibrancy that this pose brings
• Maybe your edge is malasana – softening into the earth but also the strength that you need to bring to your legs, your chest
• Trusting the strength of your arms, your legs, your core

Question 4

4. Everyone and every body is different

Answer 4

4. Everyone and every body is different
   • Yoga is a state of connection – mind, body and breath
   • A practice of turning inwards
   • Honouring the messages that your body is sending you

Question 5

5. lessening my expectations and exploring the moment more.

Answer 5

5. In my reading this week, the idea that keeps arising is the idea of lessening my expectations and exploring the moment more.
   • This is especially important on our yoga mat and with our bodies
   • Exploring your inner life force
   • Letting go of expectations allows us to explore and allows a deeper truth to reveal itself, maybe a playfulness

Question 6

Closing

Answer 6

• Feeling gratitude for your body

* I invite you to continue to build this connection of the mind with the body and with the breath