Some of the student who come to my yoga classes are very flexible. They can contort themselves into all the shapes.
Yet when we work on balance sequences, they struggle.
They can’t maintain balance on one leg or move through a sequence of balance poses on a single leg.
Because they’re so flexible, they often fall out of alignment.
What they lack is the structure of a solid foundation.
Their flexibility has no container, no grounding.
On the opposite end of the spectrum are the students who are very rigid in their structure. No matter how much they stretch, they don’t seem to get more flexibility. What they are really lacking is fluency in movement.
Flexibility without a solid foundation of stability will lead to injury. A house without a solid foundation will eventually crumble.
Too much rigidity without flexibility can also lead to injury. A tree that doesn’t have sway will break in a strong wind.
This applies to life as well.
If you’re flexible but lack boundaries, you’ll always be bending over backward for other people, sacrificing your needs in favor of others.
If you’re too rigid in protecting your space, you’ll miss opportunities.
Yoga is the art of finding the middle ground — in the body and in life.
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