Be Still My Mind

 At my hot yoga class today, our teacher closed it by reciting to us a line from the Yoga Sutras:

(In Sanskrit) "Yoga chitta vritti nirodha."

"Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind."

This is exactly how I feel when I do yoga! My mind is just focused on breathing and doing the poses so all other thoughts are temporarily gone while I'm in yoga class. The harder the movement, the less the chances of my thoughts lingering away, so I like it very much.

It's been two years now that I've been going to hot yoga classes. I've been doing non-hot yoga even before that but it's hot yoga that was really life changing for me. The added challenge of the hot temperature really made me push myself beyond my perceived limits and I can say that I have progressed so well because now I could do some poses I couldn't do before and now I could also do harder flow movements. I am quite proud of myself for this achievement. I am looking forward to improving some more, there's still a lot of hard poses I can't do. Then maybe one day I'll be able to even do a headstand ^_^.
Nevertheless, the most important thing is, being in my hot yoga class is my safe space, where my mind and body are at peace.