If I were to take any lesson from the children whom I am teaching in my yoga classes, it is that feelings are for feeling, when we need to roar, we roar, and when we need to balance, we balance. As I moved into my I Can Balance Yoga series, I noticed two unique developments that were emerging in my online yoga classes. One is that children are finally starting to show the toll that this period of mourning and grace and an overall slowing in our world, and two, that when it is necessary, we just need to roar. Along with balancing poses like eagle and dancer, we also practiced warrior poses moving toward a balancing Warrior III pose. During each of the warrior poses, as in moments past in other yoga classes, I invited the children to roar like a warrior, and this time, they took the mighty part of warrior quite seriously, as they did, indeed, roar. And not just a little bit, and not just the children who would fall into the extroversion category, and not just once. These children roared out their anxiety, roared out their struggles, and roared out the collective frustration from moving in a world where we had some semblance of control and routine to a world where we have very little, if any, and not just children under the age of eighteen, and not just for a little while, but during a pandemic and for long enough to have to come out from under the blanket that envelops our shoulders in a facade when we pretend during our daily lives that we are the masters of our universe,without any other internal or external guiding force. And as much as I am a strong supporter and outspoken advocate for everyone to reach toward their dreams, like the children, I too see the beauty in internal, as well as external, divine timing. I too see the beauty in the pause. I too see the benefit in running when we need to, balancing when we need to, and roaring when it is the only and inevitable option. In this time of uncertainty, what I know is that the one person that I can control is myself, and another thing that I can count on for sure is that everything is temporary; all of the pain, all of the hurts, and all of the obstacles that I have the opportunity to view as challenges or as next right steps, guiding and leading me towards one of two prevailing themes; when I need to balance and patiently wait for this moment in the storm to pass, I will balance, and when I need to become and transform into the mighty warrior that my five year old version who is always within and inside the inner core of my being, I will roar!
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AuthorValerie Ellis, who is in alignment with the Black Lives Matter Movement and everyone whose life is impacted, now or before, by times of social injustice. Archives
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