The mind is tangled up in attachments, it is bouied to the surface; preoccupied, distracted, delayed by the paper light layer of daily detritus. The gurus tell us we are a part of eternity, a whole, and that we would always feel this if we weren’t busy with these little messes. We keep attending to small things and getting tangled up and delaying our deeper delight. What we really want is the ever burning spark inside us; the discomfort we feel is the ache of the extras that are smothering our sparkle. Yoga allows us to see where there is tension and unwind it. Then the mirror becomes more clear-- the ocean is not covered with floating plastic bottles-- the necklace is not tangled, it can be worn and enjoyed. You improve your mental sewing so there are less new knots keeping you buoyed to the surface. You flow along with the activity. You don’t worry too much about untangling, you stitch, you keep moving forward, learning to sew with experience. Then you can go below the level of the stitching, betlow the surface agenda and enjoy the warmth of your spark.
Vinyasa means to thread. The practice is always flowing, teaching us to keep moving. Don’t get tied up, loosen up. We want to thread ourselves into the moment, into the real and into happiness! This requires unstitching ourselves from the other ties we have to less noble, wasteful uses of our threads and needles. We stitch towards the highest in the yoga practice.
We warm up muscles to let them release and soften. Same thing with our mind, we just give it time and space and exercises to direct, focus and move on.
We are together for an hour and a half to enjoy and to be here, no other agendas, no need to get tangled. Let it be a game, let it be an arts and crafts activity. See how you might be able to thread your life differently.
Shri Shivarudra Balayogi Maharaj, the great and sweet meditator, said this summer that we use so much more thinking than we need to. Trust. Allow the energy to just flow and it will magnetically align. Don’t you worry so much if you are doing it right and wrong. Don’t you get tangled up, keep moving, keep stitching yourself to the divine.
