A Little, Often: Open Up

Exhale into it

A Little, Often is a monthly feature on Balance Practice, offering a (practical) yoga-inspired practice to support you to come into balance off the mat, where it matters most. I’d love to hear your practice is going. Please drop a comment if you feel like sharing!

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Summer, the season of expansion, is upon us. It’s a big opening. This time of year asks us to spread out into the longer days that stretch out ahead of us like a slow exhale. It invites our out breath to extend and keep going, settling us into the abundance of time and space around and within us.

I’ve been feeling for how to exhale into the opening of the season ahead. Maybe you have, too?

In yoga, we make shapes with our bodies and then, if we pay attention, we notice the space we’ve created. There’s a particular stretch that opens the body and breath in a way that seems to mirror the expansiveness of this season. It reminds me that if we take the time to practice, we can more readily access our full wingspan. This sense of spaciousness feels pretty good, especially at a time when modern life continues to squeeze us to the limit in every imaginable way.