Imagine your life, your yoga, as a choreographed ballet of breath, flowing movement and complete and total awareness of everything and everyone around you in this flow. Imagine that this flow is not prescribed in its choreography but spontaneous in its creativity. It is not a ballet that you nor anyone else has ever seen so it is whatever you imagine it to be. It is a dance of emotion and circumstance that you discover as it is choreographed by you and for you. Imagine this world and how you might feel if you could achieve this ballet in every moment of your life.
To me, this is the vision of yoga. It is that destination that some call enlightenment and some attempt to reach through Zen. It is what I imagine heaven to be. A place of pure movement without effort or friction. Almost as if you are fluid within fluid. Mixing yet separate. Combined with All yet One.
It is a difficult vision to express in such a way as to have a “non-yogi” understand without thinking you odd. But if you give yourself completely to who you are as a human, who you are in the center of your being, just for a moment, you can feel it even if you don’t completely understand it.
We have war. We have hate and crime. We have things that I don’t even want to imagine but know exist. We have all these horrible things that I don’t and will never understand. And then we have yoga. I am not so blind as to believe that any one practice, yoga included, can eradicate these things from our reality. It takes a discipline I think that humans have yet to fully define. But yoga is definitely a stepping stone. It is a helping hand for those that take its Path and pay attention to its details. It may not wipe these horrible things from this reality, but one person at a time, it can being to heal what may be the root of our condition.
I believe that creativity and beauty are practices that can also serve as stepping stones. When combined, I believe they produce a vibration in the creator that begins to harmonize with the divine.
Yoga is a creative, beautiful practice that brings us closer to that divine harmonic.
