It’s just a yoga class
In a sunshine-y room with a heater on
As the clouds stream by outside
We rest quietly inside
While to world streams by outside
Breathing, focusing, drifting
Soon enough, we move our bodies
Poses into poses
Pausing to breathe, stretch, be here now
It’s just a yoga class
A room filled with 8 women
All of use surely over 45 and maybe up into our 60’s
We are in regular yoga clothes
Nothing fancy or extraordinary
Because it is just a yoga class
In a small town in New England
And we don’t think of yoga as exercise
We honor it as a path toward relaxation and healing
We use kapalbhati breath
Pulling our abdomens back to our spines
Passively inhaling
And I wonder if our skulls really are shining
I shake as always during the holding of the poses
12 years of yoga and still I shake
As if I am still shaking off all of life’s little traumas
In the fine tremors of my body
Finally we come back to the mat
One last twist, be a happy baby
And then, the best, the savasana
It’s just a yoga class
Still as important as any other yoga class
Thank you for practicing, for creating peace ease inside of yourself
Namaste
