"Love You Zindagi"

              When the body felt fluid, the asanas flowed through my veins, and my sequences felt strong and the movement of grace from one asana to another, The Vinyasa  I create with ease and spontaneity, which flow with the union of body, mind, and breath. The Body aligned in power and style, the Divine speaking volumes like a dance of your breath. You become numb to the noise outside, Now it is the music of your breath, the sound of silence, and people hardly matter. The body felt like a temple and the God in you showed up every time in bouts with every breath.

The energy felt easy and light and you flowwwww.....A YOGINI'S perspective on HEALTH.

                While I did appreciate the already great form and always will strive for better, the illness just came like an eagle gliding, slow, sharp, and sat on every part of my body. A normal Viral that blew out of proportion. Now I know it must have been the fatigue that acted up at the year-end. My body froze up and restricted my movements, and now I was struggling to get up and move. Sounds like a piece from a Bollywood movie, but no masala here, when life throws lemons at you, I did try to make lemonade. Now I started to relate my pains and restricted movement with my clients both young and Old, who also have restricted movement either because of age, weight, or other body conditions. I understood muscle and Bone physiology better, the mind and body coordination better, now with personal experience.

                Firstly the weak and tired body and now my mind trying to figure out the non-syncing movement. While my classes went on seamlessly with mostly instruction and with my little movement and I chanted Relax... at the end of every class, I failed the relaxation to myself. Although I took long Shavasanas and made time for small Meditative practices, that wasn't enough. Even after careful nutrition, a well-balanced diet, and enjoying every class the body takes a downward curve to decline, and now the mind is working with 10 tabs open at one time. the stress in the mind is just surfacing in the body. All the hurt from your every part be it the mental body or the emotional body should surface in the physical body to permanently leave. These words I often use in my class as the students are instructed to hold the posture, like; allow pain and trauma to surface and RELEASE AND LEAVE. But now, I know that even Gratitude Peace, and Joy are also stored, which is the greater force to hold the other with grace because becoming humble and small in this multiverse is the first emotion you feel when you are sick. A mortal reality.

                To this day, I am slowly getting back and my fluidity which I am proud of is slowly getting back too. Yoga is happening in both sickness and Health. And my faith in this form just grew in folds. This healing happens in silence, happens in the presence, and I know for sure with my year-end break around, things are circling back to normal soon, to a much stronger version. And I just know how much the other Yoga teachers confide in this. We work class after class, session after session for the love of it, and for the students who show immense dedication, and this I know is with many other professions too. This pressure is quite normal for people obsessed with what they do, that the mind and the body only speak YOGA. And why not?. 

To the passionate and obsessed, keep going, Do not stop. Life is too short to not be obsessively in love with any form running in you. Give all of yourself and burn in it. There is light on the other side.

Thank You.

Dr. Yashaswini B Raj