Finding Joy
After my fiance died, I had to keep moving to move on
But I found comfort in the stillness of yoga – and doing almost nothing.
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The writer loved the resting yoga pose of shavasana. But in the months after her fiance died, her devotion to the pose took a detour.
ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO
We settled down at the end of yoga class for shavasana, or the corpse pose. Lying still in the darkened studio, I let my body go limp, and soon, tears rolled down my face to the mat.
I so love these few minutes of doing almost nothing in this resting pose – just breathing and relaxing – that I began tagging it to other exercises (after a long walk, why not lie in the grass and get a few ant bites?).
