Let’s Meet in the Swirl 🌊
How do you practice when life doesn’t make sense?
Friend, when it doesn’t make sense—practice.
What a world.
Many throughout history have searched for the cosmic lesson in living in a world where we are challenged to hold both the heartbreaking and the beautiful—often within moments of each other. We must attend to the practicalities of life even as the ground beneath us opens with uncertainty.
I don’t know about your mind, but mine often longs for a place to land—a perch from where it all makes sense.
This is one seed of rigid thinking and generates thoughts like: No worries, it’s all happening just as it should or We’re all doomed, so who cares.
Both miss the truth.
Holding the Paradox
The Bhagavad Gita is famous for illuminating this paradox.
We are alive, and there are many hours in the day—so we must act. We must act, even knowing we cannot control how it will all turn out.
If we are to be present for both the sweet and the sour—if we are to let waves of anger, sadness, beauty, pain, love, and hilarity move through us—then we must practice.
This much I know.
It doesn’t have to be yoga.
There are many paths toward a more flexible mind and body.
But as your yoga guide, I can share that yoga offers a beautiful technology for holding the vastness of human experience. It gives us a pressure-tested way to take the howling, discursive mind and root it in the grounded space of body and breath. And so much more.
Three Practice Invitations
If you’re feeling pulled from side to side, here are three things to try:
1. Drop into the body.
Imagine you could gather all that swirling mental energy and, just for a moment, let it sink into the spaciousness of your body. Then listen. Let sensation lead you into movement—shake, sway, stretch. Add music if it helps.
2. Practice holding opposites.
Try this mini-meditation: observe pairs of opposites in your experience.
Can you find a place in the body that feels cool? Rest your attention there.
Then do the same with a place that feels warm. Finally, see if you can hold both sensations in your awareness.
One doesn’t erase the other. Both are true.
(You can also try this with grounded/airy, or pleasant/mildly unpleasant.)
3. Come to class.
Let yourself be guided. We’re building a community where we show up for each other and remember we’re not alone. My job is to set the space, hold the container, and offer structure for your practice—and I take that job seriously.
You’re not alone.
You are loved.
There is a safe place waiting for you, where you can rest.
With care and love,
Serena
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