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Tight Hips/Anxious Minds and the Junk Drawer of Experience

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"My mind is like someone emptied the kitchen junk drawer onto a trampoline" Stephanie Paige



The junk drawer...it seems we all have one secreted away somewhere. That place that holds the odds and ends, bits and pieces of our lives, homes, furniture and those keys that we can't seem to remember what they unlock, but continue to hold on to them "just in case". That drawer.


Yesterday this popped into my mind. Not the physical junk drawer in my home, but the mental and physiological junk drawer in my physical form. I hit the Google, thinking I was the only one with this question on junk drawers and yoga as a potential "Maria Kondo" path. Guess what? I am not the only person with this analogy...Ha! The quote below is from a blog called "Junk Drawers and Yoga Moves" by Andrea and I love the image it conjures


"I personally think that God (Universe) is very green and despises waste, so He/She composts my most considerable failures and shortcomings to fertilize my greatest successes and strengths. So, if I want to do my part and achieve this outcome, I have to remember that it all starts with stillness. I have to slow down long enough to sift through the proverbial junk drawer. And as uncomfortable as it is, I have to stop for a while, lay on the floor, and stretch myself open with a quiet meditation...and maybe even a few yoga moves." (Read the whole blog here)​


Yoga continually opens up not only my body (especially my hips), but my mind. I used to wallow in my junk drawer sifting and sorting, wondering where certain actions, thoughts and directions had caused disruption or distraction in my life. Turning each piece over and over in my mind until the sense of chaos and woe forced me to step away and regroup. I have found that as I get older, practice more yoga and find more opportunities for stillness and silence that these ruminations have decreased. That I am less apt to hold onto that wayward key "just in case", and allow myself to review a life's lesson and hold it with grace and gratitude and let it go.


For me, yoga holds many nuggets of inspiration, exasperation, reflections, and joy. It also can hold many opportunities for exploration and cleansing of the body, mind and spirit. Just like our home junk drawers need to be sifted through annually, so too our internal junk drawers can use a review.


Our yoga mats are the perfect place to start to open our hips and open our minds to what is necessary and purposeful for mindful growth while letting go of thoughts, actions, and echo's of the past that are anchors on our hearts and our life's journey. Using the energy of the new moon, mercury retrograde, and the Lion's Portal we can start to set more heart centered, graceful intentions while allowing ourselves the compassion of slowing down to hear the message of our Self shine through.


Let your practice and your heart be your guide..



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