Today’s mantra is I Create.
It was difficult for me to figure out how this related to me at first. But two things stood out to me. First was the mantra’s meaning of focusing on creation. I have been wanted to devote more time to creative things and producing acts of creativity, to wake up my creative soul. So this was the first thing that came to my mind. The idea that perhaps this yoga would help awaken my creative mind.
The second is that the practice was about creating space within the body. To stretch and practice in a creative way. To think differently about the stretching and practice and to challenge oneself to create a new way of doing it. It’s something I can struggle with, deviating from the path or the way you should do things. So I challenged myself during the practice to loosen up, to listen to my body and create space within my body. I created space by stretching and allowing my body to move. I created and found the freedom to move how my body needed to move.
While I had thought a lot about the first way it resonated with me, the realization of the second was profound.