A Sutra a Day: I-21 Yoga Everywhere

I’m on the road, enjoying one of those strange phenomena called a “working holiday”. It probably relates in kind to being “semi-retired”.

When I first moved to the country launching myself into retirement, I was not well. I was facing major surgery, after which I needed 3 solid months of recovery and rehabilitation from double hip replacements. My mind was still in working mode, though, so I translated the physiotherapy practice I was meant to do every day into yoga practice.

I did most of the practice lying on the dining room table, either on my stomach or on my back, because I wasn’t able to get down onto the floor as yet. Then, I set up cushions (still on the table) and other yoga props, and used them as chest openers. I could do pranayama this way. Yoga nidra was an added treat and put me in a healing frame of mind and body.

It’s still challenging this retirement thing, having started up a little on-line business this year – YogaAnywhere –  to draw boundaries around when I’m working and when I’m not. I figure that in the best of all possible worlds, my life is all yoga, and that’s what I aspire to.

Tivra-samveganan-asannah

For those who seek liberation wholeheartedly, realisation is near.*

*The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, translation and commentary by Chip Hartranft

Chest-opener (after Hip Replacement)

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