Something that helped me was learning my habit-forming tendency. Gretchin Rubin wrote a book called, The Four Tendencies a few years ago and reading it was like a light bulb going off in my head.

Much like strengthening a muscle, exercising the light and the dark invites us to become more sensitive and aware. To observe the delicate balance of both when we are in the moment so the moment doesn’t take us over.

There is something very loving about this idea of how yoga can approach you in ways that defy words. How it can be more a feeling than anything and when you hit the stride of it all you just move as though in a dream. Colors are different, and what you see and feel pull together in such a harmony there are few experiences like it.

It was an awkward teaching moment, but also one that left an impression because of the size of their reaction. They were genuinely surprised and I hated that I was the one who shattered their illusion of yoga, however misguided it was.