through this door is the Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary, where I'll be exhibiting vagina vérité® on May 1, 2011 as part of a cool body education event
you can light a match.
you can insult the darkness, or you can light a match.
Michel said that in class this week. He says many pithy and provocative things like that. I’m a month into attending what one student dubbed the yoga of a little more, and beginning to be able to remember some of what he said and what we did in class afterward.
Maybe that sounds small: remembering. But, you try to learn something new, to truly change a habit or belief in you, to open a new space, and maybe it’ll be like it is for me: the old you, the all of what you take for granted and tired and busy, it all just seeps into the blank space of new you barely discovered. You forget to keep going.
Anyway, I remembered this and LOVE that he said that. It is just that simple. Yes, YES, there is a lot of thoughtlessness, harming, bad customer service and hating in our world. And, noticing it, the act of noticing anything not-working, is step one to doing something about it. I just don’t seem to hear much of step two lately.
Only us insulting the darkness.
I get it.
(sigh) I just did it.
It’s not easy to change—yourself, your people or your environment. The usual, tired and busy just seep back in.
So, the yoga of a little more—you try something (a pose, a breathing exercise, an idea) and you go into it until you find your limit (the moment, the place where something tells you to stop: muscle, bone, fear, fascia, habit, beliefs, pain).
It’s compelling.
You stop there.
But then: stay a little.
Ask questions: what is causing you to stop? Specifically. And, is that all there is to it?
Could you change position a little? Take a slower breath? And then stay longer?
Feel the discomfort, and see what that’s like for a bit?
Could you go a little more?
leave the castle 
Posted on April 12, 2011
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