So, yeah!!!, you’ve made it to the class or, even better yet, are in the middle of your own personal Let It Go Yoga practice… as you start feeling the time warp. Yeeesss….?! You are laying on the floor with one leg high up in the air and passionately feeling that the two minutes (or so…) that you spend in that pose are an absolute eternity (with a capital “E”, may I add!)… and then the next two eternal minutes in the next pose can only rival the previous two minutes! And, of course, you do that leg stretching, holding, pulling, tugging while trying to – yes, that! – let go (as suggested by the instructor’s calm voice or your inner, hopefully, very, very… (really?) calm voice). You are trying to behave like a grown up ‘yogi’ and go through the process with grace and patience. You do one side, then you do the other side of the body and then… comes the saving grace – otherwise known as Savasana – the final relaxation! Afterwards you sit up, do the closing mediation and send “thanks” to all directions … and then …. a very interesting and totally unexpected thing happens – at the end of an hour and a bit of yoga it all feels like it happened in “a blink of an eye”. You feel and know that the time has disappeared. It has stretched. It also has been compacted. It feels like it was just a very short moment in time – all that long Let It Go Yoga class.

I think that Let It Go Yoga can be likened to a time machine, as it stretches and squeezes (compacts) time. For those of us who are Doctor Who fans, the quote inevitably comes to mind: ”… (time) is more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… timey wimey… stuff”. For me Let It Go Yoga is truly that – the wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff- as it possesses an uncanny characteristics of being both- an Eternity and a Blink of an Eye. There is no linearity. There are no direct lines. It doesn’t start with one and end with another. It’s both. At the same time. ALWAYS!

A reminder of how good the body (and soul) feels after the class is what truly keeps one coming back for more. Again and again… as it is worth those (say) two, seemingly eternal, minutes in every pose… to get to that “blink of an eye” sensation. It’s worth the journey – mental, physical, emotional. And it is definitely worth that glowing feeling… of having squashed the timey wimey… stuff , and having made friends with Time.
And for that, thank you, Let It Go Yoga.

Written by Indra Strong, Certified Let It Go Yoga teacher.

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