Garden of Daisies

Surrendering

October 7th, 2005

Today’s practice was wonderful. I actually got to bed early enough, that I woke up a half an hour or so before my alarm went off. Getting to drift back to sleep lightly for another 20 minutes or so is one of my favourite things in the world. I got up finally around six, made my morning shake, and headed out the door.

It was noticably darker this morning than earlier in the week (although I have to admit I was about 15 minutes earlier getting out the door which probably made a differance), but in the end that just added to the very relaxed feel at the Shala. Matt has been keeping the music lower than Paul and Rachelle usually did, and whispers to us when instructing…so the overall feel is much more quiet (almost surreal) than before.

It’s been fascinating for me to experiance a new teacher. We’ve often had people stand in for Paul and Rachelle for a day or two, but there’s a very differant feel when you know you’re going to be with the teacher for a number of months…really adjusting and accepting their way of doing things (amazing that the same style of yoga, could be taught using the same method, and yet feel so differant).

Today, doing Marichasana A, Matt came over to adjust me. He got me much farther into the pose than I would have believed I could get. It made me laugh afterwards though, because he said very softly “Did you feel there, at the end how you gave in another few inches? That’s surrendering. Try to let yourself do that rather than fighting against me.” I’m not sure why it made me laugh. Just something about how obvious it was that it was silly for me to fight against him, and yet how he made it sound like an earnest suggestion (not to do it that is). I definately like the way he works with us.

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