This morning in my yoga class, as the teacher was leading us through our breath, I was struck by her word choice. Typically, I hear teachers say, "let it go," when cuing an exhale, but this particular teacher replaced it with something. "Let something go," is what she would say each time she signaled for an exhale. It was amazing how a simple change in pronoun, completely altered my perspective on this common phrase. One of the many things that draws me to yoga is that everyone can take from the practice whatever it is they need and that intentions can change from class to class. I'll never know if anyone else took note of her word choice this morning, or was even phased by it if they did, but that doesn't really matter anyway. Today, I needed to hear someone tell me to let something go! With every exhale, I seemed to let a different negative or stressful feeling go. It was really amazing.
As we head into our last full weekend here in Arlington (more on that later ;)), I am going to try to keep her words in the front of my mind, so that we can take in as many happy memories as possible. If you need to, go ahead and do the same; after-all that's what weekends are for anyway!
Happy Friday, everyone!
