I started playing at doing yoga over ten years ago, maybe fifteen. I witnessed a charismatic yogi fold and stretch at a conference I went to. I knew we were meant to meet. We met off and on for six or seven years without my being committed to practice. Finally, at age sixty eight, I decided to give myself a chance to really do it. Since then I have learned to fold and stretch much further than I would have without the help of Syl Carson at Bodhi Yoga.
For some reason, what reason I know not, I am training to be a yoga teacher. Fancy that! I am now nearly 76 years old and moving well. I definitely feel and act my age from time to time. The rest of the time I am telling folks how much I love yoga and what a difference it has made and continues to make in my life.
The thing I love about training to be a teacher is that I am learning things I didn't know I wanted to know; like, what the gunas are. You know, the way we move our bodies forward and backward. That is called the rajas guna. The next one is the tamasic energy, the way we move upward and downward. Sattvic energy moves side to side. Those three energies are part of everything we do. I am expressing sattvic energy, outward, in the image above in Warrior II (Sanskrit: Virabhadrasana II). I love learning and doing more yoga.
When we meet at one of my classes, you will be surprised by how ordinary I am and how gray my hair is. It is never too late to become good at something you love. I am on my way.
