You know when you're in a yoga class and the instructor pours forth some rare and beautiful gem of wisdom and you marvel at how your life is forever improved with this understanding and then you go on to forget said understanding due to the difficulties of the plow pose?
It happens to me all the time.
We here at Yoga Rants and Raves are working to re-strand your necklace of knowledge one pearl at a time. When I remember a pearl, I will share it with you here. But I need your help. I can't remember them all, especially when my yoga attendance is low enough to force me to repeat a grade. Please email us with your ideas and/or comment on this blog.
Enough preamble, here is my pearl of wisdom of the day:
One of the instructors at yoga sanctuary (I think it was a male), explained this beautiful metaphor about planes of consciousness. Of the aeronautical variety:
When you go about your daily life, you're like a low-flying plane that gets batted about by every storm and wind draft. But doing yoga is like boarding a 747 and sailing above the daily storms and cruising at the altitude where the air is calm. You can still see the storms below, but you have peace. With practice, you can teach yourself at cruise at a higher altitude at will, not just during child's pose.
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