Practice, practice, practice

Saw this online today. Good reminder.

Photo of Sharath Jois from the Yoga Mala and YS 1.12

Abhyasa vairagyabhyam tannirodhah

These mental modifications are restrained by practice and non-attachment.

The long and longer path...

Take nothing for granted...remember where you came from... #ashtanga #practice 

(Photo above taken by Loren, Mia's phone)

Changing

I am changing not in these poses

But before, after, and in between.

In the pauses coming up for breath

And out.

What do these mean

to us?

That I remember moments of breath

means nothing unless...

means nothing but

Smriti.

-NMC

Oct 25 2013

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Smriti is cultivating a constant mindfulness of treading the path, and of remembering the steps along the way. This memory is not a negative mental obsession, but rather, a gentle, though persistent awareness of the goal of life, of faith in your journey, and of your decision to commit your energy to the process. Smriti is also the practice of mindfulness of inner process, both witnessing at meditation time and during daily life. (See the article on Witnessing)

swamij.com

Smriti is memory.

May he be happy, peaceful, liberated...