warrior.

Our breath and movement practice on the mat is training to be a warrior - an open-hearted, uplifted, laser-focused and barefooted, warrior.

Beautifully shared by teacher, Marisa Tingle:

We are all on the journey of the warrior right now: Practicing staying present through all of the excruciating expansion. Allowing ourselves to be stretched. This is one of my favorite quotes adapted from Love Warrior, by Glennon Doyle Melton:

“One afternoon my therapist said, "We need to host a reunion for you, Glennon. Bring you back to your body. Make you whole again." So I went to try to host my own reunion. To make myself whole in the middle of the time I felt most broken…..Later that day, I rediscovered a line in When Things Fall Apart, by Pema Chödrön, that had been pressing against my consciousness, not quite remembered, ever since my time on the mat: "So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior." The journey of the warrior. The warrior journey is staying present with love and pain. Feeling them both, letting them bubble up in my body and come and go without hitting an easy button to escape. Without overeating or boozing or shopping or sexing or snarking or scrolling my way off my mat. Believing that anger, unbelonging, loneliness, fear, doubt—all of these, too, shall pass. And I would survive them all, remembering that all the courage and wisdom I need to become the woman I want to be is inside my love and my pain. If I transport out of it, I will miss my transformation. I must stop being afraid of pain and start being afraid of easy buttons.”

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Big love, Tammy