I've found my yoga practice to be a source of tremendous lightness. Even on those days when it took everything inside of me to be vertical, I found that once I started moving my body into certain supported shapes with awareness, a little of whatever intensity I'd been carrying usually released—even when I didn't understand exactly what had caused that heaviness.
When we're feeling emotionally distraught, any surface that we can collapse on—whether the floor, bed, or couch—can feel almost magnetized. It's as though the body intuitively knows that we need to lie down and get grounded—even when we're also in a slight backbend, which can open our body and our mind to more energy and new potential.
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