July 5: On the Board at Good Life Yoga
Gut Instincts
Many of you just love the ‘abdominal’ section of class when we routinely work on developing a strong core. I’ve decided to expand that section and to explore that region of the body in terms of housing our ‘gut instincts.’
Tuning in to our intuition is tricky for many of us. How many times have you had a ‘gut instinct’ about something, did not respond to it and later wished you had? Our instincts and our intuition are closely related as they are part of the greater wisdom of our spiritual being. Learning to trust this natural sense of order around us and within becomes more of a habit when we practice yoga. We begin to trust in ourselves. We trust in our ability to know where we are at in space in any given pose and we become more comfortable with our inner space.
How many times in my yoga class have you been asked to ‘check in’ – to ‘hear’ the thoughts moving through your mind, to make space for the emotions running through you? Just about every class. This is training for our natural intuition or ‘gut instinct’. We begin to intimately know our inner space and trust this place as home base. When a ‘feeling’ moves through it seemingly apart from this space – we sense this as intuition. As tantric yogis, we intellectually know that this sense is really not separate from us – it is simply another aspect of our selves that literally ‘graces’ us when we are tuned in.
This week is ‘abmania’ yoga style. We choose not to create limiting ‘6-pack’ abs, but instead choose to create strength and awareness in our center of intuition. I can’t help but add here that the word ‘Gut’ in German, means – Good – so let’s work on Good Instincts and great Abs!!