Come to sitting in your hero's pose.
Choose whether you want to sit on your heels or cross your legs.
You can always take another option of sitting on a block or a chair or a bolster,
Whatever feels comfortable to you.
Most importantly,
Sit up really straight so your spine is really stacking one vertebrae on top of the other with the crown of the head right on top,
The chin tucked just ever so slightly so you're not looking up.
But you feel the center of the top of the head as if somebody were suspending you from a streamline,
The center of the top of your head up from a cloud.
And then just close your eyes and move inside this magical moment.
Place your hands on your thighs.
You can have them facing down or facing up.
Take a moment to think about all that you've accomplished,
All that you've accomplished today,
All that you've accomplished in your life if you want to think on a grander scale.
And now think of the challenges that you have encountered in your life and how you've moved past them,
Moved through them.
It could be something really tiny.
It can be something really enormous.
It's your choice.
Think about just something that you remember,
Maybe a series of things that have been difficult.
And the fact that you've moved past them,
The fact that you're here means that you've moved past them.
And how did you do that?
And did those challenges as much as they were difficult at that moment maybe give you a way to grow,
An opportunity to find a new way to explore and to grow.
So I was on a bike ride this morning and I have been doing this one loop and today I decided to do it the other direction.
And I knew I could do it because it was the same length,
But I had to get up and get off the bike and walk several times because the hills,
The uphills,
The challenges were much more steep and I had to give into that.
And I was very self-critical and then I started thinking yoga and I started thinking,
Well,
It's no different than using a block or a prop when you need the help.
You just need to know that when there is a challenge,
It's okay to ask for help,
To seek an alternative way to do something so that you can push through and find the downhill on the other side.
And the downhill is the reward as much as that's a good image for biking and not that you want everything to feel like it's going downhill in your life,
But the breeze flowing past you,
The ease of moving down that hill,
That is something that is overcoming the challenge.
And then being able to be proud of yourself for moving through that challenge.
That's what makes you the hero.
That's what makes you the hero.
