This Week's Mindful Morsel 🍪 | April 2, 2025 — Let Your Body Trust You
Happy good Wednesday to your lovely being đź’ś
I write to you today alight in my love for bodies and body/mind unification. Tonight (the night before this comes out), I’m leading a yoga practice that centers around Dancer Pose (aka Lord of the Dance Pose, or Natarajasana in Sanskrit).
I haven’t played around with this shape for a while, and I forgot how much I love it. It’s so playful/challenging/humbling/graceful all at the same time. And I think it’s a great example of how a yoga practice isn’t about achieving some perfect shape.
Natarajasana practice is very much about finding balance between your body and mind, as well as a sense of play and discovery, and lighthearted ease. Those concepts seem so simple as I type them, and I also know they’re anything but.
A good bit of this comes with affirming a trusting relationship with our bodies — not just mind→body, but also body→mind. This relationship is a two-way street. Our minds need to be receptive to listening to our bodies, and then make decisions that support what’s being heard.
A lot of the decisions we make do the opposite. We force our bodies to do our minds’ bidding by cramming into shoes that pinch or clothes that don’t fit comfortably. We deny we’re tired and run off caffeine fumes. We sit and stare at screens not blinking enough for hours. All in pursuit of our perception of what our bodies should look, feel, or function like.
How is that really serving our sense of wholeness and unification?
Bodies ebb and flow. Oscillate and pendulate. They are not static objects, but dynamic art in living form. Cells and organs and tissues work together to give your mind a place to call home. Your body is counting on you to not be forgiving — but understanding. Accepting. Knowledgeable. Open.
Your body is already doing what it does best, so how can you show your body that it can trust you?
Here we land back at deep self care — you can care for and support your body by making decisions to show it that it can trust you.
Love and honor me, body says. We have come so far together. Let’s go farther. In joy and in close relationship. Let’s be one and get lost in each other.
With loving good tidings,
