Stand in Tadasana and close your eyes. Feel your feet connecting with the mat. Stack your knees, hips, shoulders and head, building on the strong foundation of your recovery. Feel the solidity of your being as it becomes the earth of the mountain. Feel strong and timeless in the infinite here and now.
Sense your breath, the flow of air through your body. Breathe and feel yourself expand. Let your breath breathe you into lightness and openness, a sense of vast possibility for who you are becoming. Allow the weight of all you carry to blow away.
Gather energy into your arms and lift them out and up with an inhale, finding a sun breath to build fire in your belly as you exhale hands down the body and repeat, inhaling out and up and exhaling down, fanning the fires of passion for your life. Take one more sun breath and become fire, burning everything but what is essential.
Allow yourself to melt, finding softness and fluidity in your arms, shoulders, neck and head, bending in the knees and moving the hips. Slosh around as you feel the 60% of your body that is water. Let go and flow.
Rumi writes:
The waterwheel accepts water
and turns and gives it away,
Weeping.
Breathe yourself into the flow, the giving and receiving that is at the heart of Recovery Community Yoga.