Surrendering to my breath

8/26/2023

What is the subtle body?

Our bodies are actively communicating with us. Do you ever listen and understand what it’s telling you?

Normally my issues and communication my body is giving me comes from my lower extremities. My knee has been a problem on and off since I was 12 years old being initially diagnosed with Lyme disease. A few years into that diagnosis the doctor then said I had, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. I continued to have issues until I was about 18. The knee issues re-emerged when I was 22 and about 2 month postpartum. It wasn’t until about age 37 that i started seeing a correlation between my uterus and my knee issues. Most of the times I would have the most knee pain would be leading up to my monthly release and circle back around to feeling better once that was through.

The last few weeks the pains in my body have taken a toll on my upper body, in my shoulders. have yet to recognize the full correlation to the issues there. I haven’t allowed myself enough time to sit with the pain. It started with aches in my cervical spine (spine of the neck). My right shoulder began aching with a lingering vibration down my right arm into my elbow joint and my pinky and ring fingers, this is not totally uncommon for my right side. On occasion through the years it acts up like this if I’ve been over using or, if I decide I want to try to bring back some baseball/softball muscle memory. I can usually expect to get use back from rest. I rested right side, limited my use of that arm. It slowly began to come back to being useful. Just when I was starting to feel almost a sense of balance back in my shoulders, I woke with excruciating pain in my other shoulder. I’ve never really had issues with my left should only a pinch between my neck and shoulder that would usually rear its ugly head if I was wearing a baby for many hours in a row for more then one day. This pain is way different than that.

With this continued and worsening pain in my left shoulder I reached out to find subs for some of my weekly classes; both my silver sneakers cardio and weights class and one of my yoga classes.

Today I am scheduled to teach a yoga class at our Karate dojo. We have been talking all summer about doing this class. I did not cancel this class but with the issues I’ve been having in my shoulders it meant I also did not push and promote it the way I would have liked to. My plan for this class is going in a different direction. If you happen to join class today, I hope you’re ready to get into your subtle body and I hope my cuing without demonstrating is clear and concise.

I step onto the mat knowing in my body how to lead this class. I offer you the opportunity to listen to the subtle body.