Take Your Seat To A Block

This is probably one of two ways I sit at the beginning and ending of most yoga classes. I place my bottom on a block, bring my hips above my knees to relax my hip flexors and find a more natural spine alignment alleviating my tender lower back. Before I settle, I play with my weight distribution as I lean right, left, forward and back. Sometimes I do a couple seated Cat-Cow movements and finally, I find a central spot, arrive in stillness and I take a few deep breaths.

Have you tried sitting on a block or bolster? Try it. How does it feel to raise your seat? Once comfortably sitting, close your eyes and try to melt the block away. Then turn on your muscles that support your seated position, literally from your bottom on upwards as if your torso was sectioned into thin rows. Oh, here’s an analogy: Imagine a childhood toy of one peg with a sturdy base, onto which you place donut rings, large to small. As you stack them one by one, pause between each and fully breathe into each cylinder equally. Are you elevating above the block after just ten or twenty breaths? Or at least forgotten or became one with it? So often we just sit without engaging our muscles or decluttering our minds. Perhaps this may inspire more attention to the Self.