From my teacher Richard Miller, in 2006: Acceptance is not a passive state. The world is the way it is [and we are the way we are]. In each moment we can stop, be present, listen, and then act. We can ask: what is true at this moment? and what is the response that's needed from me? We can say yes to that.
Yoga is not a passive endeavour. In our yoga practice, and in our lives, we are faced with the need to negotiate the delicate balance between pairs of apparent opposites - stability and strength, ease and effort, comfort and discomfort, witnessing and action... In order to do this successfully we must develop our ability to know what is unfolding in our environment, and how and where we are at this moment, without judgement, resistance or exaggeration This acceptance of "what is" is again balanced with its apparent "opposite" - the possibility of transformation and change.
From my teacher Richard Miller, in 2006: Acceptance is not a passive state. The world is the way it is [and we are the way we are]. In each moment we can stop, be present, listen, and then act. We can ask: what is true at this moment? and what is the response that's needed from me? We can say yes to that. Comments are closed.
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AuthorMisha Butot RCSW, ERYT 500 is a longtime clinical social worker and senior yoga teacher living in Victoria, BC Archives
April 2024
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