Featured Teacher: Arthur Porter
I’ve been thinking about life through the lens of yoga for a bit now.
I think yoga offers tangible lessons in how to deal with things like confrontation and stress.
I’ve been working hard on splits.
I’m not sure why, but I saw that it was possible, and I have chosen to move forward on this journey every day.
“Like, this pose sucks!”
Getting into a split is nothing short of confrontational. The body reacts to the pose as if it was an electric shock. Yet I’ve taken on that sensation as growth.
So, I deal.
I do it every day and each day it gets easier. I’m negotiating with my body.
“Just a few more breaths here. One more than yesterday.”
I remember the first time my hips hit the floor. Here I am, a 33-year-old man in a split. It felt amazing. I had accomplished something through persistence despite the difficulty. Discipline.
Right now, life seems to be asking me to persist through tough challenges and come out of them better. To fight, not for the sake of winning but to accomplish growth.
I’m starting to understand why they call them warrior poses…
And I’m doing it. It’s working. I’m seeing changes in myself every day. I see growth. I see understanding.
People say that yoga makes you a better person, but it’s not because you do a string of poses and somehow you magically become a saint; no, it’s the little physical evidence that change is possible.
