We Leave it on the Mat

by Cheech

There is so much crap 💩 that piles up on us, isn't there? I think that it has to be brought down out of the head and into the body, taken off the shoulders, liquified into sweat 💦 and left somewhere. Don't leave the weight of the world 🌎 on your shoulders!  It has to be digested, moved through and discarded. The Buti Yoga¹ people say:

“Sweat With Intention”

and

“Don't let your sweat go to waste.”

Before them, the Goddess of The Five Rhythms² practice, Gabrielle Roth, said:

“Sweat Your Prayers”

Some of us 🧶 crochet—some of us have to be a little bit more, um, shall we say active? Why not leave all the stress and gunk of life to the sticky mat, then?  It's actually pretty easy to do once you get the hang of it. All it takes is a willingness to explore the body, breath and consciousness combination in response to the stress we encounter. Moving isn't so hard as getting the moving started.

As we move, the only thing we need to do is listen with the 🦻🏽ears of the heart ❤️ and look with the eyes 👀 of the breath and take ourselves to that rubber rectangle with a little care. It doesn't even really take that long. Sometimes 15 minutes will do it. I find that if I manage to get myself to the mat, then the 15 turns into 30, turns into 45, turns into an hour (or more) before I know it. All it really takes is the “taking-myself-to-the-mat” part and then the practice (and the music) can take me over and do the rest.

Come with me.

Footnotes

¹Buti Yoga

²The Five Rhythms