Breathe In Your Dignity

Breathe In Your Dignity

Dignity is such a powerful word.  In our yoga practice aligning ourselves in tadasana - standing mountain- I conclude the description of finding alignment, righting our stature, with the words "balancing your head with dignity".   I use those words purposefully - to bring the ideas of the head (the mind) in alignment with our physical body and our feeling body - to bring them all together -  in a way that opens us up to our own wonderful be-ing.  

Standing tall with foundation, integration and dignity we can feel our self ESTEEM, our own self regard and self respect.  It is in finding those qualities in ourselves that we can be authentically familiar with them and offer them to others.

My own practice of lovingkindness has opened me to the power of compassion and to the fact that all beings want to be happy. Everybody wants to have their innate dignity recognized and to recognize the innate dignity of others.

- Sharon Salzberg, "Why I Support Fast Food Workers"

Kyczy Hawk is the author of "Yoga and the Twelve Step Path" and founder of S.O.A.R.(tm) Success Over Addiction and Relapse. She offers training on line and teaches in person in Treatment Centers, and Jail. She also leads Y12SR classes at Willow Glen Yoga in the Silicon Valley area of California.

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