Learning to be.

I didn’t mean to.

But somehow, I structured myself so that I am relearning everything all at once: social interactions, basic movement, cooking, and - yes - yoga. I am training in transformational coaching, doing physical therapy for my knee, I reverted to my vegetarianism from 30 years ago, and just this week, I am hoping to finish up my 300H yoga teacher training.

All of these things ask me to do things differently than before, whether it is thinking, doing, eating, or just being.

The yoga is the least of it, and also the beginning and the end of it. Because in many ways, yoga always asks us to do things differently, or rather deliberately, whether we are calling it a training or not. We may visit some poses daily - down dog, child’s pose, plank - but the poses are different every day, because we are different. And we can only figure that out by carefully and deliberately tuning in.

That is the crux of everything else too: focus, intention and care.

There is really no other way to move through the world. It’s just that I structured my life this year to be reminded of it.