A Poem for Mountain Pose
"Every day is a new day to relearn how to stand...." -- from Mountain Pose by Corie Feiner
Sometimes when I catch my reflection in a dark window, I am shocked to see my neck pushed forward and my heavy head angled over a screen.
Sometimes I see a hunch in my shoulders (especially when looking at my phone. If you have caught yourself in “text neck”, drop a comment here:)
Now that I have the tools of yoga and also a decent amount of self-love and self-respect, I work on gently moving myself into a posture of integrity. When I first learned about the seemingly simple yoga asana, Mountain Pose, I was not that taken with it because I was like, OK, I am standing. But it very quickly occurred to me, that how we stand is how we feel, how we perceive ourselves and how we are perceived. I invite you to ask yourself, How do I want to stand today?