Emily Shines

Today I did a drop in class for 90 minutes with Emily. I hadn't been to class in a couple days, instead I moved sound equipment all weekend and strained a few things here and there.

It felt good to get back to the mat, but I was running a bit late and didn't get my traditional place in the room: close to centre, near the front. Instead, I was off to the side, and it kinda threw my practice off a bit - even though the idea is that nothing really matters beyond the 12 square feet of personal space called 'my mat'.

Emily is a gentle soul. Twice during the class she helped me deepen a posture, and once near the end while I was in 'corpse pose', she made a point of coming over, picking up my folded towel and placing it under my head.

There was once a sign posted outside the studio for drivers-by. It read,

"Happy people do yoga".

It's true. I do yoga, and I'm happy.

Namaste.