ONE THING THAT IS SO EXCITING RIGHT NOW
I always have a hard time this first week in January. I feel
like I'm supposed to be back at it in full tilt and yet it seems
impossible to be back at it in full tilt. This year I have finally
accepted that it is a transitional ramp up week in the same
way that the week before the holidays is a winding down
week. And accepting that it is a transitional time has made it
go more smoothly.
Transitions are tricky. And if you aren't conscious while
you're moving through one
they can be trecherous. My beloved chiropractor George
Mariella says 80% of his clients are in major life transitions.
(Of course this might mean that either back pain comes from
transition or causes you to transition. I know for me it was
both.) Most yoga injuries happen during
transitions. (Although some, like my radical hamstring tear,
happen when a teacher does a bad adjustment which is why I
am devoted to anusura now and City Yoga in particular.)But
in yoga, as in life, it's a mastery of
transitions
that creates a truly artful practice.
And here's the thing, right now, in the big now, we are in a
GIANT TRANSITION. A transition of celestial proportions! We
are in thge transition between the Piscean Age and The Age
of Aquarius. Paradagms are shifting, consciousness is raising,
assumptions are being challenged. So of course, if we are
making this planet-wide change things are going to be a little
bumpy.
But what you can do, what we can all do, is move consciously
through it, being aware of shifts in energy and believing that
we are not on a rollercaoster but in an interactive game, that
we effect the quality of the shift even as the transition effects
us.
On top of this today is the full of moon of this transition
January patch. In the old days, tribes named their full
moons. A great tradition that it seems kind of tragic to
lose. Of course the old names of the moons are
completely inappropriate for us. For instance this moon was
variously known as: time of
flying ants moon, the greetings maker moon and the frost in
the
tepee moon. I'm thinking we could
call it the "getting back to work even though you are not
ready and neither is anyone else" moon. Or maybe the Or
the "everything new is old again" moon. Or the "I can't
believe I already broke my
resolutions" moon.
But whatever we call it, and wherever you are to look up at
it, breathe and notice that between the in breath and the
out breathe there are two little other parts of breathe. The
top
and the bottom of the breathe. The transitions. If you pause
in these moments and let the prana/energy of the breath
move
through you, you will get a hit of how these transition
moments can empower you.
20 full moons that dance
