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Victoria Jackson
Vickyj I was lucky enough to holiday earlier this year on a tropical island, a bit of sun to lighten the wintry gloom in England. Before I left, one of my students joked that she was looking forward to seeing my Facebook feed full of graceful yoga poses set against beautiful seascapes. We laughed: she knows this isn’t really my way of yoga. I prefer to keep things quieter and personal, seeking peace within rather than fixating on the outward aesthetics. Such high principles do I have in my yoga!
But of course as soon as I was there, briefly experiencing my share of an island paradise, my perfect yoga principles wavered a little. I began to be seduced by the exotic beauty of the place, so different to my home environment. I became filled with all the possibilities that a holiday offers, far away from my usual way of being and the self-imposed limitations of everyday life. I started to have visions of myself performing a beautifully open and uplifted Tree Pose alongside the palm trees that shaded my morning swim; I would sway in the warm breezes and it would look amazing! Or in my mind’s eye I imagined executing a perfect Warrior 3 on the beach, aligning my body with the horizon behind, so that it would look al most as though I was floating on the sea — or even levitating just above it. Sunrise and sunset also beckoned to me, full of creative potential. The glowing ball of light poised over the ocean at dawn and dusk suggested endless photographic compositions with an artistic interplay of asana and the sun. I could line things up to cup it in my hands, bend my body around it, or perhaps radiate a fiery halo as I sat in a tranquil cross-legged posture suggestive of some seriously deep meditation…
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