What do you do when you come up against those tight areas in the body?
- What does it feel like to be restrained?
- What does it feel like to find yourself stuck in something that you do not like?
- When you’re caught in a tight spot?
During the earlier years of my Yoga journey, I didn’t enjoy uncovering these places of holding, of tightness, of rigidity in the body. I felt stuck, cornered, confronted and out of control.
As I was learning I tried many things … to ignore it and continue breathing in the hopes it would disappear. It didn’t.
I tried pushing against the restriction and it held tighter.
It was not until I could truly witness that sensation, be with it fully, that I noticed a little space would open. Using my breath, breathing fully into the rigidity, getting fully into my feeling body I could start to create more space, to find some ease with this feeling.
Through the space that I uncovered I realised I wasn’t stuck. That in this “so called” corner there was the ability to move, to explore, to open up to the experience. By being with it gently, holding it with love and the soft caress of my breath, change happened bit by bit …
