Yoga and Astronauts
Posted by Jill Reeves in 
Greetings, Daring Do-ers,
As your positive, sharing-life-messages yoga teacher I have a confession to make: I disagree with Miley Cyrus’s quotation, “You can do anything if you just believe in yourself.”
Even if you believe in yourself, you most likely won’t survive jumping out of a plane without a parachute. You won’t be able to lose 50 pounds in one day. You cannot travel the entire world in a week. And yet, at most graduation and award speeches by famous and not so famous people, we are constantly told that we can do anything if we just believe in ourselves.
The key is: we can’t do everything. I get tired (and yet, also inspired) by the people who keep insisting that we can do anything if we believe in ourselves. The miracle stories of the impossible bring awe to my life (and are much appreciated at the end of the Nightly News.) I shed tears over them and I do believe in miracles. So please don’t think I am trying to discourage you to believe or try.
I like this viewpoint by Mike Tayor:
“It’s not true that “you can do anything if you believe in yourself”. But there are things you can do that you never will if you don’t believe in yourself. Don’t let that happen.
In your yoga practice, there may be times that you see a pose where you think “I can’t do that” and then you do! Or you try, and you can’t. What a place for this lesson in life that even if we believe in ourselves we can do EVERY YOGA POSE EVER CREATED. There are some people who can, but then there are some people who are astronauts, too, right?
This week Hailey and Joana will continue to present you with challenging poses, relaxing breathing, restorative poses, and Savasana. I guarantee you will find yourself in the trying and doing of the yoga. All you have to do is… 🙂
Here is the schedule for the week. Let me know when you would like to attend:
HAPPY NOW YOGA SCHEDULE
Tuesday 9:30-10:45 am Home studio
Wednesday 7:00-8:00 pm Barnesville Town Hall
Thursday 9:30-10:45 am Home
Namaste,
Jill
