I was pretty confident yesterday was going to be one of those
"not your flow" type of days. Surprisingly, I had a kick-ass practice shocking myself, my body, and probably everyone else in the room (okay - they don't know me AT ALL or care but I like to think I am a secret inspiration).
My full dedication, breathing, focus, and driste (aka your 'gaze point') was ALL over the place - but my body seemed to want to actually go into the poses and my chaturanga's were stronger than ever!
I actually could control myself flowing from high plank to low plank to even into upward dog before finding myself in downward dog the entire practice! I mean, I basically wanted to high-five myself and everyone around me (but I figured that wasn't very yogi of me). It was one of those practices where you are there physically... but mentally - not so much. It was encouraging but discouraging for me as I want to practice both controls. But, WHO CARES?! It was a miracle that I was able to cut out my negative thoughts and my beliefs that I was going to just fall on my face all class again - and actually whooped some yoga ass.
You hear a lot in any type of physical activity that it is "mind over body" but sometimes can't it be "body over mind"? There are days I have no desire or want to go to yoga or do anything physical but it is my mind that makes me. Then (on the super rare occasion) it is my body that makes it a great workout. I'll be honest - I basically kicked some asana-ass yesterday. It also
helped that she played some
music yesterday. I'm just saying...
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