09/09/09 at 9:09 pm and nine seconds: I spent this momentous occasion in a candlelit hot yoga session at Black Swan Yoga, a donation studio on 5th street, and it was exactly what I needed tonight. I have been looking for a yoga studio in Austin that could compare to Charm City Yoga in Baltimore since I moved here. I was searching for a yoga studio that offered hot (but not too hot) yoga classes in a relaxing and welcoming environment; I think I found it here. Honestly I clearly haven’t been looking that hard for a studio since it has been months since my last yoga class.
Tonight I was able to reconnect with my body feeling its aliveness and the energy flowing within me and around me. Reconnecting with my “aliveness” tonight made me realize how rare it is that I am actually present in my body and connected to it. I find a cyclical pattern in my life that the more disconnected I am from my body the worse I treat it and then in turn the more separated and distanced from my body/ myself I become. When I am disconnected, I am less concerned with how I nourish myself, how much I sleep or exercise or what unnecessary substances I put into my body (caffeine, alcohol), but as I become more connected I crave unprocessed fresh homemade food, exercise and water. Tonight I also remembered that it is about practice not perfection, and the process not the end point. I am hoping to integrate yoga back into my life to help me remain present during all days, not just on the momentous ones.
Posted by charmcityyoga on October 26, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Hello – this is Chris Co-founder of Charm City Yoga. Thank you for your very kind words about our studio. Very glad you have been able to find another place, we miss you here! I am setting up a Charm City Yoga blog, but have only one post at the moment. Namaste