When You Look Around What Do You See?
This week Shane and I celebrated our 12th anniversary of choosing to bind ourselves and our growth together. It’s been a wild ride. We’ve seen things we will never unsee, we’ve ached more than we knew possible, we’ve celebrated, argued, danced, cried, laughed and in it all, found so much deep, deep comfort.
One of the definitions Krishnamacarya and his son Desikachar used for yoga, was RELATIONSHIP.
The mightiest of 'ships' that sails on the turbulent seas of human fragility and human heart, relationships are our mirror, our zenstick, our ashram, our barometer and our deepest, most all-encompassing practice.
As we change with practice, our relationships change too, they are in fact our yardstick showing us how much, and in what ways, we've changed.
Shane and I are so very similar and so very different. We push and pull and neutralise and go again. That is human. We know how admired our relationship is by many (maybe not as much by people who sit behind closed doors with us ;)) and that in itself is a blessing, a motivation beyond ourselves to keep trying again and again, to keep staying, to keep striving to remove the obstacles that get in the way of unconditional love - that is the gift of relationship!!
What we have at the centre of it all is commitment - the knowing that we are as much each other's person as we could break up and become other people's people or be on our own.. We CHOOSE to remain hand in hand on this adventure, with yoga as the foundation and exploration of love as the framework for finding ourselves.
Shane and I are one messy, joyful, chaotic, cohesive example of relationship as yoga, yoga as relationship. Our relationship reflects us to us.
Life has a funny (and often very unfunny) way of throwing curve balls, ranging from the inconvenient to the utterly devastating. Relationships, of any loving variety, are our buffer, they soothe the hardship of being human and they tell us so much about ourselves.
When you look around at your relationships, what do you see reflected back at you?
What can you do in your relationships today and tomorrow that will tend to them and help them flourish?
Lissie
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