Surely we can all agree that war is a tragedy for all of us that live on this earth, but it is especially heart breaking for those young men and women and their families, who are putting their lives on the line day after day. I’m not sure that there could ever be a good enough reason for this to be happening in the 21st Century, but it is. And it makes me feel a little bit better to know that these brave young people might be able to find some solace on the mat.
I often think about the soldiers in this picture, I don’t know who they are or how they are, but I do know that as I lay my head down in Child’s Pose, they may be doing the same thing. And somehow, our consciousness is connecting and we are able to send good intentions via this connection—and I am able to say silently, thank you for being so brave, please stay safe. And perhaps they are saying thank you for keeping us in your hearts. I don’t know, but I like to think that this is so.
And I am so very grateful for the practice—and as I step into Warrior II, I make a conscious effort to be enthusiastically courageous in my relatively safe experience.
