{"id":122,"date":"2013-03-21T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2013-03-21T16:40:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T16:40:31","slug":"no-effort-is-wasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slowbloom.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/no-effort-is-wasted\/","title":{"rendered":"No Effort Is Wasted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jillbertini\/6795230706\/\" title=\"anole by jillbertini, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7188\/6795230706_89989c4b1b_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"212\" alt=\"anole\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been feeling low-energy this week. Yesterday in my yoga class, my teacher asked if I would demo kicking up into handstand with a partner. I felt extremely depleted, but I agreed to try anyway. Despite not feeling full of energy, I made it upside down. This is the only way I&#8217;ve ever been able to get into handstand &#8211; with support. I have been practicing yoga for over a decade. And handstands have been on the menu for just as long. Some of you know how much fear I have with this pose. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No effort is wasted.&#8221; My yoga teachers say this all the time. There is also the concept of a &#8220;lifetime pose&#8221; &#8211; as in, it may take a lifetime to get there. I&#8217;m not sure in which lifetime I will get over my mental blocks and kick up into handstand on my own, but I&#8217;m certain I will surprise myself so much I will fall out and have to do it again. <\/p>\n<p>I judge myself against my classmates, many if not most of whom can kick up on their own. I wonder what is wrong with me that I am not like them. But the reality is, I am not them. Each of us has her own struggles. I do know that over the years, my relationship with this pose has changed in subtle ways. There have been small and subtle shifts, perhaps like the movement of the tectonic plates. I trust in the process and recognize that even if these changes aren&#8217;t visible, they are still happening.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, after I demonstrated kicking up into handstand with support, a classmate approached me and said, &#8220;I aspire to do what you just did.&#8221; Wow did that expand my perspective. We are all on a continuum. We all struggle. 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Yesterday in my yoga class, my teacher asked if I would demo kicking up into handstand with a partner. I felt extremely depleted, but I agreed to try anyway. Despite not feeling full of energy, I made it upside down. 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