Day 216 – Yoga, Rolf writes, is like learning through movement. Rolf describes specifically: “The inquiry is childlike; it is the movement of consciousness; it is a wisdom in action.” The questions within the poses definitely draw our mind toward our physical state: where am I tense? what do I need to contract? where am I awkward? what is my face doing? my hands? I respect that Rolf comes from a tradition of vinyasa and that moving through and practicing postures specific to his tradition support this idea that asana is playful and spontaneous, as a child learns, although I’m not sure it speaks to me in the same way.


In these two readings on asana and meditation, I yearn to become the veritable “sky that holds the weather” and the “wave that is within and expresses the entire ocean.”