“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”
– Some Yoga wisdom from B.K.S. Iyengar
There is a lot in this – thanks B.K.
I was thinking of a friend of mine who died all-too-soon from cancer when I drew this yoga quote from my pile of books today. Treatment for cancer has come a long way, and survival is more often the rule. Sadly not for my friend. It’s a difficult reflection but I do have fond memories of days hangin’ out post-diagnosis yackin’ about things, including yoga. My friend and I met at one of Sydney’s prominent yoga centres so it started as a bit of a yoga journey. Weirdly – she had a theory that lots of yoga practitioners got cancer because they were “mobilising energy”… can’t say I agree. Also weird, but in a weirdly postitive way was how the cancer changed things – over time we retreated from the yoga centre to the couch and that’s where most of our conversations took place in her last year. I LOVED the time spent just hangin’ out. It was like the cancer gave us permission to do so.
So that’s my yoga wisdom for the day – couch time, pizza, whatever.
Yours,
Yoga Genie
Chief Bloggist, Yoga Whatever…
