Siouxland Magazine - Volume 3 Issue 4

Siouxland Magazine | Balance /38
Sawyer in full expression of her love and shining light through movement and dance.
‘Express Yourself’: The Art & Practice of Accessible Yoga
By Dr. Meghan Nelson
Yoga is for EVERYbody—simple statement.
Revolutionary idea. Inflexible: perfect, try
yoga. Are you too stressed? Again, perfect, yoga can
help. And the best excuse of all, “I’m too busy.” When
I hear this one, I think of the wisdom that everyone
should meditate for at least 30 minutes a day unless
you don’t have enough time. Then you should
meditate for an hour.
It’s the cruel irony of our human condition that we are
constantly undermining our success. It’s true even
in business. We seek out pain points—problems to
solve. We get a meeting with a CEO or a president
of an organization, and we ask questions like, what’s
keeping you awake at night?
Of rejection. Of acceptance. Of showing others and
ourselves who we truly are. So, we give reasons why we
don’t come to our mats, and why we don’t go for that
run or walk, why we make poor choices around food,
relationships, you name it. There is no shame in this
game. It would seem this is how we’re programmed. It’s
at least what we’re fed—that we’re inadequate: we’re too
fat, too ugly, too much fill-in-the-blank. It’s why we need
diets and makeup and pharmaceuticals whose sideeffects
outweigh their cures.
A yogic life forces one to ask a different question:
When do you feel like your most authentic Self? We
spend a lot of time staring at shadows when we could
be basking in the light. We focus on what makes us
fail instead of the moments of shine.
Why do we deny the world, our communities, our
families, ourselves the magnificence, the divinity of
our most profound self-expression?
Fear.
Sawyer beaming her proud and open heart open to
share the possibilities of love out to the universe.