Namaste Noble Warriors!
“…the key to the ‘progress by less’ method
is always to do less than you think you can.
if you think you can gallop right away,
just take a walk. thinking you can run around the block,
just run down to the corner.
you have the rest of your life to progress into long distance running.
why strain, make pain?
why not lope along, free and easy,
doing it like a dance?
when you start doing it you’ll see that running is naturally hard enough
all by itself
without you creating additional hardship for yourself.
so, practically speaking, you might ask,
How far should i run?
and I would answer
by saying
you must answer that for you.”
– Fred Rohe,
THE ZEN OF RUNNING
***
last night, after teaching three HP Yoga classes, i felt a twinge in my
right shoulder. if you want to ruin a good personal yoga Practice?
start teaching.
this morning, upon awakening, the pain was still red hot.
a blockage of life force (pran) trying to nest itself in my
right anterior deltoid so as to seep into the acromioclavicular joint
and start an entropic cascade of serial distortion throughout my body.
i would have not of that.
i knew i had cut through this blockage of energy (coming from me trying to do too much with my Big City life. all pain is self created and…shoulder pain is all about just that; carrying too much weight on our shoulders).
that is the go(o)d thing about a lifelong dedication to yoga and WF…the phrase, “Physician heal thyself,” takes on real trust. so i did my neti and applied some special pranayama (yogic breathing) techniques and began spraying an intensely heating internal breath into my shoulder…i could read the blockage like a picture book. after ten minutes, the energetic dam broke. i immediately launched into forty minutes of asana, opening my shoulders, chest, and thoracic cage.
i sit here typing this to you with no pain.
physician, heal thyself.
take responsibility for the aches and pains
both mental and physical
in your life
run toward
not away
from them.
aches and pains and mental afflictions
are naught but
spiritual running shoes
waiting for you to lace them up
with a new flick of consciousness
and start running toward them
into them
transforming them
into the sacredness of your life.
that is all.
jao!
coach ilg
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