Headstand Pose
"... your feet / you once thought could only / walk on asphalt, concrete, and dirt, / could reach towards heaven / and tip toe through the air." - from Headstand by Corie Feiner
I had only been practicing yoga for several months when I decided that I was going to work on doing a headstand. Why? Because it was 2020 and I needed to do something that seemed impossible. I needed to turn my world upside down. I needed to believe that if I worked at something for just a little bit every day that my body would learn to be less scared, that I would learn that DNA is not destiny, that I would overcome the story that just because no one in my bloodline had ever done a headstand, did not mean that I was fated to be weighted to this earth.
I knew that if I tried and failed and learned how to fall with grace, that I would, one day, do it, and then time would pass and I would look back to the day that I could not, and smile.
As Nelson Mandela said, “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
It took me about th…