In a greater culture that often values a "quick diagnosis and do 'x' to fix it" model of health and yoga practice, let's begin by first arriving and acknowledging all of how we truly are as we step onto our mat. Let's really allow our truth on all levels to come into our awareness, whether it is what we would prefer or not. Let's practice noticing and welcoming all the "opposites" of our present moment experience before we begin to move, so when movement and response arises, it is in the direction of harmony, resilience and balance.
Our focusing reading today is from Mastin Kipp:
There is nowhere to run to; there is nothing else to do except be in this moment and allow what is to be. From that place of radical acceptance, major change can happen. The first step in any transformational experience is acceptance and surrender to the present moment, the way that it is. From that place we have the awareness, humility and power to change what is.