How to get a summer body
Magnetism gets blocked by obsessing and restricting.
It’s unleashed when we participate fully in life with a perspective of choice — what a gift to choose to move. To strength train because it makes you feel powerful. Practice yoga because it moves your energy, meditate because it clears your mind, cook at home because so much vibrant produce is in season - NOT because someone told you to, out of punishment, or out of comparison.
The energy of that perspective changes you.
Not for a moment.
Not for a season.
But for as long as you choose it.
And ironically?
That’s usually when people begin looking the way they’ve always wanted to feel.
All That Stillness Holds: Exploring Yoga Sutra 1.2
All that the stillness holds — the inhale, the pause, the unknown — is the essence of yoga itself.
It’s the practice of being here, now, with an open heart and a quiet mind.
Hands open, heart full
Understanding aparigraha - an invitation to loosen our grip—on things, on expectations, and on who we think we have to be.