No struggle - just commitment

  

You can find some asanas easier than others, but no posture is simple. Not even Savasana.

You can hate Navasana – “nobody likes that shit” is a sort of mantra or code phrase – and then discover that it is your best companion through the practice.

You can be scared by balances or feel uneasy with chest openers – and find that right there is where you need to work most. I can’t do a decent Urdhva Dhanurasana yet, but this pic from yesterday’s practice shows at least some improvement over the past few months compared with what it used to be. Thanks to a full series of shoulder exercises my first teacher gave me.

You can be badly challenged by twists or keep wondering why the hell they put Parivritta Parshvakonasana there, and one day it turns up that you love it though you still can’t do it properly.

And you almost always forget that one pose that discomforts you the most.

But this is no struggle. We are not supposed to fight our way out or through it. 

This is “just” acceptance, yielding and self-tolerance. And full commitment.