Becoming

I often heard at the gym I worked at that people were amazed at how their bodies were changing. And yes, their bodies were changing. But I've learned something from yoga that is at least true for me and just a little bit deeper than the idea of mere change for me: through yoga, my body is becoming. It is being refined and stripped from its natural man bounds until it is pure and clean and what it was meant to me.

As I progress in my yoga practice it doesn't feel like I'm going from being Emily the normal person to Emily the yogi. It feels more than I've been Emily the yogi all along but am just uncovering that truth. When my body slips seamlessly into a pose and there is no strain and I have the strength and flexibility to get there without injury I realize that that possibility has been with me all along. I just had to breathe into it and find it. 

Yoga is about finding who you really are and have been all along. It's about discovering the divinity within yourself and feeling it in body and soul. 

I salute the divine within you. Namaste.
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