Yoga Teaching

Life teaches us to be hard…or so it may seem.

On the mat,

We can return to our softness.

The doorway back to gentleness is found in Yoga.

Every movement - a poem of peace.

My hands caress my feet like soothing honey,

Melting away all the suffering from the hard edges of roads I have treaded.

My breath, inhaling calm and serenity, like a balm on all the wounds of the past.

On the mat,

I rest in the eternal now.

I look above me.

There is gentleness in the sky, and I know I am watched over.

I look down,

And a warm embrace from Earth envelops me.

I am held.

Be gentle, child, Earth says.

Be gentle.

Written by Ana Maria Pineda. Copyright 2023. @anamariapinedacom

Photo Credit: Daniel Torobekov, found on Web.