![]() If it’s accessible, find a bind by reaching the other arm back behind you and grabbing the opposite wrist. Bring your front shoulder under your knee as if the thigh were a backpack. Slide your back knee to the ground and walk your back foot in a bit to help with balance. Squeeze your inner thighs together and open the right palm in a gesture of gratitude. Let the back hand and foot connect, and point both hips forward. The strength in your foundation will enable you to surrender with no fear. Rest your shoulder over your knee, interlace the fingers behind the back and dive forward with your chest. The more willing you are to find your legs, the easier it’ll be for the chest to rise. Interlace your fingers behind your back, and push equally into the back and front foot. Work with the dual pull of both legs, and the hips reaching up, in order to find your breath. Repeat on opposite side.īend one knee and hold on to the ankle, bringing the opposite rib towards the thigh. Make sure the heel of your back foot is rooted into the ground in order to support the opening in the front hamstring. Surrender your ego under your heart, as your strong legs hold you up. Stand with legs spread, toes pointed forward, and fold over to the right side. Feel the power of the floor supporting you as you shine your heart open. ![]() Stand tall with toes together and heels apart. It is our job to shift our lens through the embodied practice, so that we might see the world through the prism of gratitude. The ego and heart work together with the support of the legs, to stop, to feel, to acknowledge. The bowing down of the head toward the heart as a gesture of humility but also of connection and acknowledgment, which helps us to slow down, recognize, and listen. Because our lungs represent our competence, our ability to hold life and to support our heart, the more we can work toward expanding them, the easier it can be for the mind to interpret this idea of abundance and fullness. ![]() By strengthening our legs and opening the back of the heart we allow the support of the ground to create full expansion in the lungs and our breath capacity. We can help our thought process by opening and moving our body in a way that enables the body, breath and mind to work in unity towards the ultimate goal of gratitude. Magically enough, gratitude creeps in and the brain recognizes even what might have once seemed like a negative, into an opportunity for growth, for change, for transformation. In the face of life’s challenges, this practice offers us a technique that naturally supports us in working through an obstacle. This might all sound a little out there, perhaps a little too esoteric, but it is this very ability to stay present that invites magic into our life. At a certain point in the gratitude practice, the essence of gracious living becomes inherent and abundant, so much so, that the only way to proceed is by sharing and giving back. This vibrant energy sustains us, irrespective of circumstance. Like little droplets, gratitude sinks into the heartbeat, into the natural pace of breath, into the essence of being. We can learn to be so fully immersed in the moment that even as it ends, we counterintuitively find an innate sense of non-attachment, which of course lies at the center of our ability to embrace authentic gratitude. Instead of lingering in the past or fearing the end, by practicing gratitude we learn to acknowledge the beauty in life and the gift in each and every given moment by simply practicing awareness. After all, when we’re having a beautiful moment, we move more slowly because we don’t want it to end. ![]() Eventually, I felt as though I was learning to manipulate time. I began a practice of stopping to acknowledge joy each time it came up. Over time, I’ve discovered that if I allow myself to stop and acknowledge happiness, while I’m feeling it, the sensation tends to stay longer. That fullness consequently brings an exhale-a need to empty out and subsequently give back and share that great sense of peace. It helps us feel the inhale, the prana, the life energy that comes with acknowledgment. Presence brings awareness, which enables us to see things clearly and to connect more deeply to our body and breath. When I looked up the definition of gratitude on Google, the following phrases popped up: “the quality of being thankful readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.” Based on this, it seems that in order to be grateful, one must be willing and ready to show appreciation.īut how does one know if they are ready? One is ready when one is present, aware, immersed in the present moment.
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