ONLY AS STRONG AS MY CORE

Despite the fact that I have been doing yoga for quite some time now, I have only been to yoga core ONCE. For the most part, it’s really only because this class was not offered in my previous studio in Bangkok. And for the lesser part? Well….not sure exactly…it just didn’t catch my fancy somehow.
And yet, as I move through more challenging asanas and inversions and balances, I find myself taking a step back…breathing in and out…and thinking: “This will not work. I need to work on my core.”
And so it is. Without proper core strengthening and really bringing awareness to your core, you will find yourself…wobbling though a lot of the more advanced poses…or getting by but advancing quite slow…or passing through one pose after another and becoming stuck somewhere, somehow.
And so, as I found myself doing the “100s” pose during Shaun’s class yesterday…and feeling the all too familiar burning sensation in my core muscles…I kept on thinking how much stronger I have become and will still be as I continue to build and work on my core.
And it is perhaps not a coincidence when they say that “you are only as strong as your core”. To a certain extent, it is physical and yet greatly metaphysical as well. At the end of the day, it all boils down to the core – to the “core of our being”. That is what defines us… that is where we draw our strength, where we find balance. Without going back to it – we will always be struggling, wobbling, moving and yet never really changing.