There is a rest in brokenness.
You lie on that hard ground, unable to function as you did before. So you lie there.
There are no more "shoulds" because the luxury of self recrimination was taken from you when you fell and broke to pieces on the earth below. "Cannot" doesn't matter now, either. All that exists in this moment is 'What Is Now.'
This.
And there is beauty in the brokenness.
It is a beauty of constellations in the scars, of tides in the tears, the heat of fire in the bleeding of you.
In the abrupt quiet that follows an unexpected injury, a sacred silence fills you. And because there is nothing left in you that can create, push, force, be, or drive into, there is a blessed empty space, to be filled by something other than all the crazed and busy thinking, the manic achieving, and the over-scheduled hours.
In these seasons of humble brokenness, we are opened, utterly. There is no protecting yourself here. This is the stripping away of ego-driven, striving conception.
Let there be grace.
Allow the broken places to show you their beautiful rest.
The broken stick on the forest floor is the branch who earned her rest.
I bless the stick.
I bless the branch.
I bless the rest.
Except from "Beautiful Broken Things" by Sarah LaRosa
Osher Center for Integrative Medicine (Vanderbilt)
Wednesdays 10:00am Gentle Yoga - Foundation Level
Wednesdays 2:30pm Gentle Yoga for Healing Steps* (4/8-5/13) - Foundation Level
Thursdays 4:00pm Relax & Renew Holiday Series* (1/8-1/22) - Foundation Level
Thursdays 4:00pm Back Care Series* (3/12-4/30) - Foundation Level
Tuesdays 12:00pm Vinyasa Yoga - Open Level
Thursdays 12:00pm Vinyasa Yoga - Open Level
The Pilates Place (Bellevue)
Wednesdays 4:20pm Align & Flow - Open Level
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Foundation Level=beginner appropriate, Open Level=all welcome, modifications suggested
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** Research-based class for teen girls aged 12-18 with chronic pain, email me for further information.
