Blessed are the Flexible
"Blessed are the flexible for they will never be bent out of shape".
A common saying for most yogis and yogini’s. We say it often because it is very true; as it applies not only to our physical forms, but also to every aspect of our being—mind, body, heart and soul. I’m quite sure you 've all known people who have said their lives have been ultimately transformed by the practice of yoga and truthfully, I wouldn 't doubt them for a single second, let alone an entire minute. 15 years ago I wasn 't overweight, I wasn 't (or at least thought I wasn 't unhealthy). I was 110 pounds soaking wet and holding a chicken. I walked everywhere, never turned my back on a challenge—for God sake I was even a vegetarian. I was very healthy, a ‘normal’21/22 year old—until October of 2001. I had just met and gotten into the relationship …show more content…
Not that fibromyalgia is fatal by any means, but it saved my body from what should have been a much more horrid and painful experience, and more importantly—it saved my sanity. I truly thought I was losing my mind, and all too often modern doctors tend to blame the patient or lead them to believe it’s all in their head. Call it intuition, call it fate, or call it karma—whatever the reason was for that DVD to come into my life, I can never be grateful enough. I 've been dying to visit a yoga retreat in Bali ever since reading an article in a 2008 issue of Spa magazine by Elizabeth Gilbert author of Eat, Pray, Love, but my wife knows that if I do either one of two things will happen. A) I’d never come home or B) there will be claw marks in the airport because I will literally have to be dragged aboard the plane. Sometimes I think my wife thinks I’m nuts; or that my family will never quite grasp what this ancient practice has done for me, but it has transformed me in my entire being through every part of my physical body—straight down to my seven
"Blessed are the flexible for they will never be bent out of shape".
A common saying for most yogis and yogini’s. We say it often because it is very true; as it applies not only to our physical forms, but also to every aspect of our being—mind, body, heart and soul. I’m quite sure you 've all known people who have said their lives have been ultimately transformed by the practice of yoga and truthfully, I wouldn 't doubt them for a single second, let alone an entire minute. 15 years ago I wasn 't overweight, I wasn 't (or at least thought I wasn 't unhealthy). I was 110 pounds soaking wet and holding a chicken. I walked everywhere, never turned my back on a challenge—for God sake I was even a vegetarian. I was very healthy, a ‘normal’21/22 year old—until October of 2001. I had just met and gotten into the relationship …show more content…
Not that fibromyalgia is fatal by any means, but it saved my body from what should have been a much more horrid and painful experience, and more importantly—it saved my sanity. I truly thought I was losing my mind, and all too often modern doctors tend to blame the patient or lead them to believe it’s all in their head. Call it intuition, call it fate, or call it karma—whatever the reason was for that DVD to come into my life, I can never be grateful enough. I 've been dying to visit a yoga retreat in Bali ever since reading an article in a 2008 issue of Spa magazine by Elizabeth Gilbert author of Eat, Pray, Love, but my wife knows that if I do either one of two things will happen. A) I’d never come home or B) there will be claw marks in the airport because I will literally have to be dragged aboard the plane. Sometimes I think my wife thinks I’m nuts; or that my family will never quite grasp what this ancient practice has done for me, but it has transformed me in my entire being through every part of my physical body—straight down to my seven