🧘🏾‍♀️ Mat Talk 2: Message Received

I had to hit my mat today. The ancestors, the body, and my spirit wouldn’t have had it any other way.

I arrived in a twisted seat—shoulders hunched, back knotted, feeling like a cave had been carved through my torso. The erosion of life’s recent events had settled deep in my bones. So I exhaled. Exhaled the trauma. The pressure. The grief.

And as I flowed into my first Sun Salutation, I inhaled the fire that’s been licking at the edges of my life lately.  Fear. Anxiety. Anger. Distrust.

They all came with me to the mat.

But then something shifted:

“As I moved into Shiva, I saw it—this is illusion. I’m not alone in my pain. We’re all out here moving through the fire.

But then something shifted.

As I moved into Shiva, I saw it—this is illusion. I’m not alone in my pain. We’re all out here moving through the fire.

And when I landed in Child’s Pose… that’s when it happened. 

I exhaled. 

I cried. 

I let go.

Third eye to the mat. Right ear. Left ear. I surrendered.

Water flowed from my heart to my eyes, from my eyes to the earth. A sacred stream connecting me back to Source. Back to myself.

And in that quiet, I understood: This life—this reality—is only what I create it to be. If I envision fear, I’ll find it everywhere. If I choose love, I’ll see it, feel it, be it.

Namaste

Thank you, mat. 

Message received. 

I’ll be back again soon.

Peace, love, & Gratitude all!

Your Intuitive Auntie.