The Stork

Balance on one foot... I don't know if I ever really thought about it much until I started practicing yoga.  This has been a journey.  When you first are shown a pose where you are to stand on one leg and do other horizontal things with your body, you wonder how in the world you will ever get to the point of being able to stay there suspended.  But you just keep trying... and slowly over time, you learn how to adjust weight and position your body in alignment to be able to hold the pose and breathe without really thinking about the fact that you're now on one foot and sideways.  What an amazing transformation!

And then you are taught patience again when you injure an ankle and try to do this same pose on an ankle that's not at full strength - still swollen from a nasty turn.  If you remember all the little details about the pose that got you into the pose properly on your strong ankle, the pose becomes accessible to you again... you spread out the energy and the work to all points of the body - reaching up, stretching back, connecting your center to lift weight out of your foot.... and then you realize, that you don't need the ankle you're standing on to do the pose... you need your entire body.

Is this how we also help to support the other parts of our lives?  When one area is weakened, can we support that area with the other strengths we have?  Can we do this for others too?  But of course!  The one-legged stand is not just all about the one leg... it's about the whole.  It's all connected...

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