The summer days bring in the blanket of thick, moist, warm air, and the loud vibration of the cicadas has passed as they return to the damp soil for another 17 years of sleep. In this month of July, the world is spinning with noise and distraction as we witness extremes.
To stay in a state of balance is mandatory as the mind can wander not into a summer haze of confusion. Our nervous systems will then react by being quick to bite. Being overheated physically can burn us out emotionally.
We know that health is a state of mind, a practice of focusing on that roaming mind as we slow down and stay present. In a world of rushing and doing, how do we cool the mind down and feel the ease of just being?
YAF is a place to come inward and share within a community to practice being enough. To cool the agitation of the outer world with a sense of peace, ease, and safety. The mind must be able to come inward to heal the physical and emotional body. Health is our abundance.
We have to create space and time to practice. Coming into YAF offers us a safe harbor to get on the floor and breathe. Let the tension of overthinking shift to an experience of feeling relaxed and enjoying the calm that can wash over us as the physical body releases the tension.
It takes practice, but this is what yoga offers us—a way to feel the experience of relaxation in being present. We are not an exercise studio offering only a “workout in heat.” We are a healing studio that uses the practice of yoga to feel the sweet ease of letting the body become stronger as the mind releases its grip on the tensions in the body. The effect is peaceful coolness.
I always say that until one experiences my words, they mean nothing. Yoga is all experiential. How can I explain the feeling of riding a bicycle? I can describe it in terms that only make sense to the intellect, but to take that first moment of balance and ride is an individual moment where the intelligence feels the effort. A teacher who inspires and nourishes the effect of feeling balanced is magic.
This summer, come enjoy our excellent teachers as they guide you inward through the brilliance of all yoga and restore your balance. Yoga is a state of balance, and as our nervous systems are restored, our hearts can open to the beauty of being alive.
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Love and light,
Laura Jane
