Resistance

“The more you resist it, the more difficult and painful the stretch will be....You should relax into it" Paty Renda  (my yoga teacher at Casa D Hot Yoga on 11/8/23)

When the student is ready - the teacher will appear.  So I went to yoga, yesterday, and they had changed the class type and the teacher.  Let's face it - I am a creature of habit and I was very disappointed at this sudden and unexpected turn of events.

At the start of this blog, I mentioned that I will have periods of time that are all about the same theme.  A message that the universe is sending to me as a whisper, a thought, or a 2 x 4.  Yesterday, during my yoga class, my teacher said that the more you resist - the more difficult and painful it will be to stretch- you need to relax - and there was the theme.  Growing and changing is tough business.  Whether I hear it as '.....and acceptance is the answer to all my prayers today' or 'Let go and let God', it is all the same thing.  I go to these classes and they will tell you to lay down and relax your whole body.  Then they say scan your body and see if you have tension anywhere - and when I begin I think "I am totally relaxed" and then I find that I am clenching something so I relax it.  Then I start the scan again and find tension so I relax it.  It is a constant effort to release, to let go, to be present.