A couple weeks ago I took what they call a “Yoga Immersion Class”. Every day for 2 weeks I showed up at 7AM at this perfect little yoga studio. The title of our class was Awaken To Grace. If you know me, you know the irony of this as I’ve never once in my life woken up to or in a graceful state – I wake up silent, grumpy, and sometimes slightly aggravated with the simple fact that I have to have my eyes open…AGAIN.

And so it was in my disgruntled morning state that I somehow managed to get myself to yoga class every day. Some days all I wanted to do was growl for 90 minutes, other days I came very close to falling asleep while holding poses, and there were days when thinking about breathing for the entire class was an impossible task.

BUT, on the days when I wasn’t growling, rolling my eyes, or keeping myself from falling asleep I experienced a very beautiful QUIET and sense of ALLOWING — Allowing me to be me, allowing life to be what it is. I was gently reminded that I don’t have to make everything happen or force things to be what I want. There is freedom in the world and in life to ALLOW.  

I guess this isn’t such a new or profound thought, just one that has been hard to put into practice these days. So it was nice, day after day, to gently, slowly, and quietly be reminded of it in the midst of physically breathing, stretching, allowing, and being – and letting myself listen and believe that voice that says “You are going to be okay. In fact, YOU ARE OKAY.“  Goodness, I sound crazy! But hopefully what I’m saying makes just a little bit of sense and offers you – lucky reader – an ounce of that same grace toward yourself and life and a second to take one deep breath and know in your soul that you too are going to be okay, you are okay, you are more than okay – YOU ARE GOOD.