Mastodawn

She never called it pranayama. She said: breathe like the mountains breathe.

I was ten. The Sierra Nevada held still on the horizon.

Who first taught you to slow down?

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ClaraTheWriter Apr 19

My grandmother practiced yoga for fifty years. She called it sitting down.

Asana means seat. Not pose. She had it right all along, the vocabulary just hadn't caught up.

What does your practice look like without the words?

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ClaraTheWriter Apr 12

She gave it freely. I needed a studio and Sanskrit vocabulary to accept it.

Wisdom doesn't need a certificate, but sometimes we won't receive it without one.

What wisdom do you need permission to trust?

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ClaraTheWriter Apr 12

I went to Rishikesh to learn yoga. I found my grandmother instead.

Sitting by the Ganges at dawn, I recognised something from a terrace in Granada.

Have you found what you were looking for?

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ClaraTheWriter Apr 9

She never called it pranayama. She said: breathe like the mountains breathe.

I was ten. The Sierra Nevada held still on the horizon.

Who first taught you to slow down?

Read the full essay

https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/what-my-spanish-grandmother-knew-about-yoga-without-ever-doing-it-1efcb85249f9

#abuela #yogaphilosophy #culturalwisdom
#breathwork #granada #embodiedwisdom
#yogaoffthemat #ancestralwisdom #spanishculture

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