Holy shit... here it is. ๐ฃ Iโve shared one of my deepest darkest days flying over Afghanistan in this article. @seanecorn once told me โLet your wound become your grace.โ Well... #vulnerability, #exposure, #shame, #triggers, #judgement, #embarrassment, #selflove, #forgiveness, #pain #demons , #grace , #truth - they are all here. Tangled up in an hour of my life that Iโve replayed over and over and over in my mind, in my body, in my heart, and in my soul for the past 8 years. ๐ช Itโs not the whole story yet, but it is the beginning... Here I am - Soulfully Naked. . (Magazine due on the shelves October 9th) @yogajournal ใปใปใป โIn July 2010, US Navy pilot Liz Corwin was flying her F-18 fighter jet on a combat mission over Afghanistan at 350 knots. She had been in the air for seven hours and was struggling with the little hand-held urinal that female pilots use to relieve themselves mid-flight. Suddenly, to her left, she caught a glimpse of her wingmanโjust 50 feet away. The pair were on converging paths. They were so close, in fact, that she could clearly see the control panel inside his cockpit and the squadronโs mascot painted on his helmet. Taking a deep breath, she called on her eight years of aviation training and yanked the jetโs control stick toward her, flipping her plane upside down in an aggressive attempt to avoid a collision. But the turbulence told her it was too late. As she glanced out of her cockpit, there was no question: her wingtip was missing...โ โข โ...That hour was brutal, says Corwin, calling it the worst of her life. But she tapped into her yoga training, employing the same breathing and mindfulness techniques she had been practicing throughout deployment alone in her room on her yoga mat. Five thousand people awaited her return on the carrier, and she knew it would be a moment of reckoning for her reputation as a pilotโa female one at that.โ โข Read the entire article on the front page of YogaJournal.com โ โThe Good Fight: How Yoga is Being Used Within the Militaryโ โ written by @yogajournal senior editor @linds.tucker โข ๐ท @robertsturman Pictured: Lieutenant Commander @LizCorwin @kiragraceyoga (at Sunset Cliffs, San Diego) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoeN-9dAT_j/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g3thiutb9fpp