I finally get why savasana is the most important pose
It has happened. My personality has been defined in meme form.
The anxiety of anticipation is my particular demon. It’s hard for me to live in the moment because my brain starts going down a never ending list of things-to-do-for-the-next-thing. Needless to say, I was the person fidgeting in yoga class during savasana, or outright rolling up my mat and leaving before class was officially over.
On the plus side, I have a gosh darn good aerobic base and have seen lots of cool places because I can’t sit still. On the negative, I’m tired. A lot.
Or I should say, I was tired a lot.
I looked around a few months ago and realized that another summer season (or as I think of it, adventure season) was upon us and I wasn’t paying attention to it. Which meant I wasn’t experiencing it. I wanted to change that.
Because I could say that I hadn’t experienced much of life lately due to Covid and it would be true; but Covid (and the subsequent lock downs/restrictions of the last few years) just exacerbated a tendency of mine to insulate that had gotten to be too much of a habit.
So whenever I found my brain wandering down some overgrown path towards some amorphous far off thing, I took a breath and looked around.
Here is what happened :
My art practice has never been more consistent.
I have been exploring the mountains with a renewed perspective and not focusing on mileage or vert or anything that could be considered an ‘analytic’.
Which inspired more art.
I made bread. Went to the farmers market. Went to a concert. Jumped in a lake. On paper this may not seem like much but, I gotta tell you guys, I have gotten really good at talking myself out of things the last two years.
And I’ve been laying in savasana in my yard every day, looking up at this tree.
I get it now, why this pose is important. How stopping and being present for life makes even a simple life so much fuller. I wonder what I was running from all these years-my life has certainly not been awful up to this point. I am kind of sad for that girl and what she missed.
But I am paying attention now.
‘Til next time
~Brandi
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