The Balanced Life
Yoga Helps Feed Our Creative Genius
Did you used to want to be an artist, a musician, dancer, singer, writer, a yogi? So why don’t you any longer?
If it comes from a place of fear, that’s resistance. I recently attended a workshop with West Coast Yogini Kathryn Budig. Budig urged her class to “move from a place of love not fear.” For example, she spoke of the first time she went skydiving and realized that the fear she felt wasn’t about dropping 14,000 at 150mph, it was the fear of the unknown that scared her. Now she skydives all the time and loves it. When we replace love with fear we can live life to the fullest. When I started to practice Yoga, I was always in a state of fear and resistance. I had anxiety that I was going to hurt myself, that I was going to do it all wrong, that I was going to pass gas, or that I was going to fall on my face. Since I lived most of my life …
Sarah
3:37 pm on Thursday, May 31, 2012
Erin, I really enjoy your entries. Thank you for not letting the dark voice inside keep you from writing--and sharing--your thoughts. You hit on a topic of great meaning to me which is the ability of yoga to help us break down whatever barriers we put on ourselves and see what really is possible. I was lucky enough to have a yoga teacher break through to me on this topic and now I am living so … more ›