During pregnancy and now with a one-and-a-half-year-old child, the yoga practice guided me along the way and did not abandon me and a vice verse. Yes, everything is different, and so am I. Here are some observations:
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I’ve never focused on the duration. And that hasn’t changed. Whether it’s a 10-minute practice or an hour and a half, the benefits for me are the same. That’s how I practice now, I just spread out the mat and see where the inhale and exhale will take me.
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I returned to the daily practice at home that brought me back to the beginning of my yoga journey ten years ago. I love starting over even things I’ve been doing for years. It makes me see the development from a different perspective. Only occasionally I go to the yoga studio to completely switch off during #shavasana. The only asana that actually missing 🙂
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Practicing with a child is like immersing yourself in real life, all is there – the distraction, the interruption, everything. But isn’t that what yoga is all about. To learn that there is no such thing as a perfect situation, that the right time may not come no matter how much we wait for it. Therefore, we must live now, make sense of actions and thoughts – now. There are always distractions in everyday life, we often lose focus, we are out of our skin, even… if we keep ourselves in those moments, we have done the best we can.
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Yoga with a child – a practice that unfolds the individual layers of my consciousness, regardless of the things around me, regardless of the things inside me.
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Letting my body lead, both during pregnancy and postpartum, is probably the best gift I’ve ever given myself. And for my child. Because I believe that everything is cumulative, that everything is an example, everything gradually becomes a way of perceiving the world and thinking.
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So… these days I re-stringed my mala that spilled on the floor during one of my last practices while pregnant. Because we need to break down so we can realign our #chakras again. Slow and deliberate. And now Mia helped me with the stringing.
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Namaste. And how is your practice?