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You have maybe 5 minutes of your own time (living with in-laws with your toddler), but you have to make time.. find it, escape in it.

My (momentary) time is dedicated to standing up straight, hands straight up “mountain pose” and taking the time to breathe. Usually after doing the dishes.

Whether I get a succession of two or three more deep breaths is not a guarantee but the ones I take I get to enjoy.

Living with my father in-law has allowed me to realize yoga is not “just” for everyone, it HAS TO BE within everyone’s mental grasp, and there are a lot of people who won’t ever let anyone “tell them what to do” ie “take a deep breath.” Ridiculous as it sounds, it’s true. Consider the generations before yours, yoga to them could be a foreign affair they could never envision their current state bodies to lean into.

And that’s my challenge: how Can I get this relAxing lifestyle to “the people” who have stifled their own physical flexibility for decades? A mentality that has never given much thought to deep breathing and never given any value to it, childs pose, let alone a simple mountain pose.

After a complete ACL reconstruction, it was something to have to re learn how to walk with a normal gait. One of the hardest things I’ve had to go through, and I have the hopefully-not permanent angry line between my brows to remind me. After almost a year and a half I got there and then, when things were finally back to a regular speed for me, I busted my ankle. This is where the need for a self-healing mindset came upon... how could I feel the relief in my tiny muscles in my ankles knees and hips? I’ll probably need to rename some of the names of some of my massage techniques as “self-healing” is a big claim... but the jist of it has me applying the same methods for wrist pain, lower back pain, neck pain, and the dredded c-section scar pain.