Can you be in midline? Why would you want that? Let’s imagine the opposite . . .
You’re jumpy, up and down, flitting from one room to another, one activity to another. You’re over caffeinated, hungry and running late.
Coming center is vey different. It grounds your body in space. It settles your mind on one action at a time. Practice this week helped us find center and be fortified.
Take your right foot over your left knee. Stretch your arms forward to fully arrive in standing pigeon. Trace midline with care as you lift your right foot and take it straight back in space to your right hand. The bottom leg strong and supportive. Your heart open and clear. Your right arm reaching forward. Dancer pose. You wobble but you maintain the support of center and you’re free.
Mountain pose brings you to home base. Balanced front to back, side to side. You take a vinyasa, stretch deeply into down dog. A weight clunks in the room above you. Someone coughs and another student rustles and leaves early. External stimulus everywhere. Moving center fortifies you.
Another deep breath and you watch your teacher demonstrate bird of paradise pose. Class has opened your shoulders and hamstrings; your breath is deep; your body is warm.
This moment, this pose we put it all together. A bind or a fish hook. Weight into your left foot. Float the right foot and then EVERYTHING hugs into center . . . your hips, your mind, your legs. Base foot wide and stable. The deep breath of other yogis pulsing through the room like a low, deep drumming.
You stand all the way up. You straighten your right leg and move your shoulders back, thinking of a bright orange bird of paradise flower and you smile.
See yourself moving through your practice, your day from midline. Namaste, Lynn
