Yoga is a practice that combines breath, movement, and teachings designed to help raise awareness and bring wellness to the body, mind, and spirit. Each yoga pose has an intentional action that becomes part of the overall design. Knowing each movement, how to breathe, and the teaching behind it, helps a person understand their position in life.
When our chest is out and our head is high, we feel proud and empowered. When our head is down and our shoulders are forward, we are shrinking. When we open our arms fully, we are spreading our wings, communicating a readiness for flight. When we bow, we are in gratitude. When we are standing firm with clenched fists, we are assuming the warrior position. Every movement and position carries a symbolic meaning energetically. Skipping across the room expresses innocence and playfulness (tee tee).
Grounding into the present moment with awareness and being in touch with our emotions, our heart, and our spirit help us truly know our position in life. How else do we know our place in a circumstance, a relationship, a career, or a group? How can we be sure that we know the truth of our position? Is ascension linked to this type of knowing? The questions are building as I cross the bridge to the spirit world for a whisper from the angels:
Every action made in this lifetime is movement toward knowing your position in the various aspects of life. The key to acquiring wisdom is found in the movement known as the journey of the soul. As you engage in your passion, you sustain interest in the areas that you were born to master. Obstacles are merely a single part of the Universal Law that responds to that which is contained in your human prayer for life.
As you experience life, you mature from dependence to independence and awaken to the ultimate creative expression. The transformation from the physical back to the non-physical places you directly on the highway that extends from your heart to the rainbow bridge and beyond. There you will crystallize all knowledge into the wisdom contained during a pure conscious state. The need to worry, the desire to achieve, the attachment to outcome will all become distant artifacts of the life that brought you to experience Earth.
Your personal design on this incarnation is simply to know and understand the truth of who you are and who you are to become. To master a teaching is to have the experience that leads to the highest level of discernment. With the ability to analyze with your mind and to know with all your heart, you find safety in accepting your position in life. Where you stand in a relationship, the truth behind your connection to your family, the path illuminated by your destiny, the choices you make, and karmic lessons you learn will ultimately become your legacy.
Intentions light your way on the path. Love leads you through the darkness when you cannot see. Gratitude lifts you up when you fall. Celebration creates the sacred energy that protects you from suffering. The people who assist you are your fellow seekers. Your life becomes your reward. Ascension becomes movement for those who know their place.
Bring joy, ease suffering and create beauty, then dance like you mean it!
Blessings, Russell
“It doesn’t matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don’t know who you are, or if you’ve forgotten or misplaced her, then you’ll always feel as if you don’t belong. Anywhere.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach
