Staying sensitive in the middle of all this life is a challenge. It’s also an answer, to pretty much everything there is.

When people enter a rigid and rules-driven environment – whether that’s in a yoga studio, at work, or wherever – the usual response isn’t to get sensitive. It’s to turn off feeling – because this doesn’t feel good. Then we enter follow-the-leader mode, because that’s what we think we’re supposed to do.

Except that it doesn’t work. Sensitivity works. Following how you feel works. It’s good for everyone to find and follow what actually works for them.

I think people tolerate all these rigid rules – in yoga and in life – because we don’t believe that something will actually work for us. Or we don’t believe we can actually find it for ourselves.

Belief is important here. Even in Western medicine. You think belief doesn’t matter, and it’s just pills and procedures? Not true. Belief – and expectation – impact all our health outcomes. They impact all our life outcomes, too.

You have to believe you can find it. You have to believe you can do it.

-Mike

About Strala Yoga Training

Strala combines the movement and healing wisdom of tai chi with the form vocabularies of yoga, tai chi, qigong, and Traditional Chinese and Japanese Medicine, to help people release stress, move easily through challenge, and live radiantly inspiring lives.

It begins with a mindset, that says our best way to get where we’re going is to feel good along the way. It also works miracles for whole health, helping us to find ease in our bodies and minds, and create the right conditions both for healing and optimal performance.

In our Strala Training Courses, you learn to shape your destiny on every level that counts, from your psychology, chemistry and neurology, to your chromosomes and even gene expression. The unique set of skills you develop – for connecting with yourself and others, unblocking your energy, healing what needs healing and accomplishing challenge with ease – uncovers your ability to create the life you want, and be an inspiring leader to the people around you.

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