open to the bigger picture

january, new year, new beginnings, resolutions for a healthier happier life... today's yoga class was a beautiful reminder to open to the bigger picture
in the winter it's so easy to close up - stay inside, physically close with shoulders hunched hiding your heart and your light, blocking energy flow - and so important to open
what a beautiful way to come in to the new year and reconnect with a consistent practice, being open to grace, remembering that there is room enough space enough for all of us and it is easy for each of us to close up and become caught in our problems that feel like they are putting the weight of the world on our shoulders but when you open to the bigger picture, open to the universe, you see that these individual problems are barely perceptible so why choose to close up and dwell in those places where the weight feels impossible and your shoulders collapse and crush your light and crush your breath... the sun is shining, every day, even if there are clouds in front of it, we can be like the sun, we can open and shine our light, every day even on the ones that are cloudy