Twenty five pelicans and counting, wings opening to the sea as they flew over the west side of the wharf, a film of clouds above them with a transparency showing the blue of the October sky.
“From your center,” my friend says as she instructs the full yoga class on the Santa Barbara Wharf this morning, a monthly offering she gifts to our community. Generosity with a smile, a salty-air energy as we look toward the coastline and local mountains rising behind the cityscape. Her and I ran across the mountain stretch last Spring, just the memory queued a full smile.
She spoke of trust, re-grounding, community, birthdays, and showing up. She suggested meeting yourself exactly where you are and getting curious about if you had only two more breaths in this space, what did that bring up for you? Personally, I chose to open back into some sort of a hybrid wheel-bridge pose. Either way her instruction had me ask without judgment, which allowed more than I expected.
At one point during the class she offers the advanced students an option not available to those of us, perhaps I was the only one, who decide to practice yoga in a class on average once per year. I chuckled at her comment, it felt like a hug.
I love this friend and all her badass-ness. I have a handful of females friends on my #unfuckwithable list, she is one. We adventure well together and I enjoyed being in her space this morning among her community. The outdoor class was an unexpected opportunity as my calendar shifted last minute to make it possible… moving forward something I’ll prioritize.
In her teaching the words “get lost” were shared. Without the intended perspective, they landed as a task for me to expand into further today.
What would it feel like to separate from everything and have no sense of destination, a true sense of unknowing, absolute uncertainty and no fuel for judgment.
Again, her comment landed solidly in a safe place to savor….
get lost
…perhaps that is what the pelicans do each time they open up their wings and expose their center to the sea. I thought of my clients, my friends, my family and how quick we are to complicate almost everything, myself included.
When I got home I made a hot drink, sat on my patio in my rocking chair, plugged in my headphones, loaded up a playlist of tunes and got lost!
What I found was benevolence, rapport, courtesy, goodwill, an allowing and of course, without doubt, an abundance of love flowing with ease.
Today I invite you to take a moment or two and get lost… away from knowing, away from certainty, definitely away from judgment, and be…
Find anything?
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