From day-to-day living, translated…
Before I was pregnant, I was a kid who couldn’t stay in one place, I’d gone to the mountains, to the fields, to the creeks, the ordinary jogging was just the basics; until I got involved in yoga, I’d found, that what I’d needed more was, that depth of stretch and that calm peaceful state of mind. And, as I was doing the breathing exercises, I’d always felt more clarity than ever.
a woman exercising with her baby, photo from online…
After my baby was born, I’d originally thought, that I was able to return back to the yoga classrooms to practice the moves, but, feeding, soothing, caretaking……everything I do became, tied with my child. The normal yoga classes would certainly, NOT allow me to attend with my baby, because that, is a place where calm and peace was, absolutely, necessary.
Luckily, I’d found a yoga instructor who wanted to help the mothers with children to exercise, and found a comfortable place; and I’d, invited the mothers in my neighborhood, with babies close to the age of my own child to attend, and my yoga nursery came into being!
The sound of a yoga nursery is very rewarding in the way it’d sounded, but, it was, actually, a quite difficult thing to test out. Our classroom wasn’t as peaceful as the regular yoga classrooms, the mommies who’d taken their babies to do yoga would get interrupted in their workouts, because of their babies’ needs; and, the babies would start crying at random, while the class is in session, screams to, mixed with the laughter.
keeping an eye on the kids, while getting a workout, photo from online…
I will NEVER forget our very first classroom session, a baby started crying, wakes up the baby next to it, then, the chain reactions of all the babies were waking up, and crying altogether too, and, it’d, stressed us all, mothers out, and, we can only listen, and watch the yoga instructor do the moves, and not follow along. The yoga instructor’s calmness was, amazing to me, in this chaotic situation, she was still, able to, explain in clarity, how the muscles are relating to how the body moved, and prevented the mommies’ worries from causing each other stress, how lucky we were, to have, such an amazing yoga instructor.
The yoga instructor was right, after we’d become mothers, our trainings to be calm and peaceful is in every day living. Naturally, we’d all wanted to have a period of complete peace and quiet, when we can let go of EVERYTHING, just sit, and enjoy, and calm ourselves down; but life is surrounded by so many challenges, surprises, and, accidents, and this sort of a yoga class, was a reflection of our daily routines.
The big break at the end of the class, was the most difficult move in yoga. In a second, the thoughts can take us all over the places, we may need to contemplate, on what we’re, feeding our kids at lunch, the endless number of chores waiting at home for us, and the baby close by us, would naturally, NOT lie still and NOT move a muscle either.
Sometimes, due to weather or when our babies are ill, a lot of mommies would be absent, and this, for me, the sponsor, was a challenge of sorts. The babies are important, surely, but, mommies’ stretches, socializations, and relaxations are too, important.
As I’d become a mom how to find a way, to care for my own mind, my heart, to NOT get beaten down by the enormous pressures in my life, that, is the only way, to keep my family running well.
So, this reflected toward that thought of “if momma’s not happy, ain’t NOBODY happy!”, and, it is important, for the mothers, to find that balancing point in their own minds, especially when you’d just had a child, you need time away from taking care of your young, because if you don’t, you will, surely, CRACK! And, this yoga for mommies might just do the trick for some of you, new mothers…
Life, the Obstacle Course 