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Hi, I'm Dora and welcome back to Radio Headspace and Tuesday. So the other morning I was taking

an online yoga class. Now I'm not too much of a yogi but I do value the benefits that yoga brings.

The instructor was offering beginner poses as well as a few advanced ones and I thought hey,

let me try one of these advanced poses since I've been doing this for a while now.

So she instructs us to do the pigeon pose and if you don't know what that is, it's like the splits

but your front leg is at a 90 degree angle and the back leg is straight. So as I struggled to

maneuver my way into this position, the instructor said don't compromise your breath for the sake of a pose

because the whole thing with yoga is that you should be able to breathe while moving into these

different poses and here I was holding my breath the entire time. So afterwards I was reflecting

on that class and it made me think about how so often in life we simply forget to breathe.

But let me take a moment to pause and fill the body with air. We create space and open up

ourselves to the possibilities that exist in the present moment. A few months ago I was guiding a one-on-one

session with a woman named Ruby. I mentioned her in a previous episode. Ruby was exhausted and

burnt out from taking care of her family members and in our session we were connecting and trying

to create a plan of action for how she can learn to take better care of herself

and the one goal that she wanted to achieve was just to be able to breathe and remember her breath.

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