Do the ground work & Rise with grace

Its pretty comical to see people start to dance and hoping around their mat--- refusing to let go of their grip on their toes in the mid-air, frowning their browns, determine to catch their balance somehow.

So, what's the deal for balancing pose? 

What's not keeping us in balance?  Many times is just simply that we're focusing on the wrong area to ask for a balance. Let's say: Grip your right toes with your right hand, and balance on the left feet. 

Where's do we draw energy from to give us the strength?

Try it yourself now, and check it out how you react in this situation!

Commonly, we tend to stare hard at the feet that we are gripping, and trying to get ourselves to the center point. But ended up dancing around, following where our feet wants us to go. Sometimes, it just feels like getting lead by a dog.

The whoo- haa is... we're looking at the wrong feet to ask for a good balance. 

Yes, its the boring standing left feet--- working really hard to root itself to the ground. Try this pose again, but this time... have your focus to the standing leg instead. Not literally looking down, but just put your mind and attention on the standing leg.

The standing feet is the only base that is closely in contact with the earth. Drawing energy from the earth upwards create a lightness at the top--- thus bring us a step closer to the mid-point. I would like to image myself in a standing balance pose... as to like a big tree standing firmly and strongly on its own... even a gush of strong wind comes by... i sway with the wind.... without affected the deep-rooted stance.

Balancing poses has so much to offer--- not only on the mat, but also valuable life lessons. Every fall gives us a space for self encouragement and patience. That we build a firm foundation on the standing heels, and a strong, spacious and elegant pose will grow--- instead of relying the feet flying in the mid-air as a pillar.

Interestingly, yoga teaches us that--- in life, its always that we create illusions for ourselves, and we often bring our mind to these illusions for solutions. When we learn to break free from this sheath of illusion, the solution is there waiting for us to touch. 

The flying feet creates the problem... the rooted heels provides the answers. Happy balancing!