A Poem for Lizard Pose

Are you willing to stop identifying with your wounds and be in the path of healing?

This stunning artwork is by Rebecca Nebert.

Even when I was in elementary school, I used to list my problems. One for each finger. It was something I had—

Something was wrong with me.

Something was wrong with my parents.

Everything was wrong with the world.

But then I remember the day I took out my journal (who was like a best friend to me), and I wrote… “Who would I be if I wasn’t sad?”

Whoa…

I went blank.

At that moment, without realizing it, is when I began to peel back the layers of my personality with the realization that my self-concept was not who I was, but a phase of identifying with certain memories, surroundings, and habitual ways of being.

Does that make sense to you? Have you ever been attached to your problems or your wounds without realizing it… until you did?

This brings me to Lizard Pose, a humble hip opening yoga pose that honors these stunning little reptilian creatures who roam our Earth.