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Keep It Simple, Swami !

Updated: Apr 7


What it comes right down to is....


Yoga makes you feel good.


And, to paraphrase the effervescent trickster know as Timothy Leary,


"You can't do good unless you feel good"


I came to yoga after suffering severe head trauma in a cycling accident. Fractured skull. Subdural hematoma. Swelling of the brain. I got a "Nabavi Cut", A clean incision named after the doctor who performed the surgery on my brain to release the pressure. Right above the hairline.


As I was wheeled into the operating room, I thought,


"It's the first time in my life I have to let go!"


I came out of surgery. I couldn't admit it at the time but my life as I knew it up to then was over. What did show was a loss of direction, depression, and a disdain for anti-seizure medicine.


I began to do yoga.


I woke in the morning feeling like shit (Please don't be offended. That's what it felt like)


I would do a yoga practice and feel better.


I woke the next morning feeling like shit.


I would do a yoga practice and feel better.


Soon it be came clear...


"Why don't I do this every day?"


EMDR? Polyvagal Theory? Mindfulness? Breathwork? Post-Traumatic Growth? Cross-Education Effect? Neuroplasticity? This was 1989. What I didn't know then that I know now is that those yoga classes that just "made me feel good" incorporated all those now-recognized healing, rewiring, and balancing modalities before these modalities were known.


That's a lot of value in one class or session.


More carrot and less stick.


More treat and less treatment.


Think about it.


Why do yoga?


Because it makes you feel good !


...


High love and yeehah...





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