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Dear friends, The past week did not go as planned. This is an understatement. Sound familiar? Does this ever happen to you? (Um, hello, 2020 and 2021!) Does it feel like the gods and goddesses of space and time are laughing at you? Can you eventually laugh at yourself? I’m a planner and a doer. (This is also an understatement.) Many of you have heard me say, “I get shit done.”) And, I know very well about myself that I get attached to things going a certain way. Even after 2+ pandemic years of relentless practice not being in control, I still have a hard time remembering / accepting that I am not in control of almost anything. This past week was another solid lesson in this practice. In yoga, ishvara pranidhana in essence means to practice cultivating deep and trusting relationship in this, your precious life… to soften and surrender to what actually is (instead of how it used to be, or how you want it to be)… to understand that our life’s actions itself can an offering to something bigger than us – no matter how things are unfolding… to accept that our life has its own useful place within the vast ocean of community. When I find myself in the very human reaction of being upset or resistant to things not going “as planned” – I take heart in this concept of surrender. Not as a means of defeat, but rather as an elegant reminder that I can pause to take a conscious breath, acknowledge the feelings around the change, remind myself I’m not in control (and that’s ok), let go, and then carry on. In gratitude and abiding,
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