Yielding....

I completed my first week of classes...

I feel grounded, relaxed, focused.

This week one of my instructors talked of yielding -- of allowing gravity to do its work. To trust the ground to carry your weight. Often in standing positions my feet grab, the ankles tense up, the toes arch. Yielding takes the activity out of the muscles, but it's not a slouch either -- there's alignment, posture, breath, most important, there's the presence, the awareness of being in that moment of stillness.

Too often I'm tight, or thinking about where I'm going after class.

This week I found a brief respite of quiet, I rediscovered my mat.