At some point during a yoga class, the teacher will call out inversions. According to Uncle google, ‘inversions are postures that take you upside down. e.g. they bring the hips higher than the heart and the heart higher than the head. They are an integral part of yoga practice and there’s an inversion for every level in yoga.’ Here I am addressing, the headstands, handstands, tripods, forearm, scorpion and co. If you are wondering why anyone would want to be upside down for whatever reason, I advise that you find a yoga class/ teacher near you and find out #yolo

#anyhuu After extensive scientific research (read personal experience and those of fellow yogis and students) there are a few of us that carry a certain energy around inversions. They are seen as intimidating, hard and sometimes impossible. The people who do them? IG yogis, hardcore yogis, serious yogis and the many other labels we put on those who we deem have achieved this highest level of #yoginess. When I see something that I aspire to but feel unable to achieve, I am notorious for saying “when I grow up!” Harmless right?! Wrong. What I have done is distance myself from the need to do it because I am to scared or feel inadequate to do so and disguised it in praise.

“According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyways. Because bees don’t care what humans think is impossible.” Fans and parents know this as the opening to the Bee 🐝 movie. I used to really like this intro but now I love it. Why? It was once actually believed that bees shouldn’t be able to fly, because they were judged by the aviation laws that govern airplanes. We now know that bees fly by essentially creating mini-hurricanes around them. #kwagroundvitunidifferent (Go ahead, I dare you to google it!) Many of us don’t take certain risks because we weigh them using known, albeit, ill-fitting sets of rules. So we shrink and stay in our comfort zones. #pausefortruthbomb

As an alleged yogi who continues to learn and play in this practice, I made a commitment to do it. To do the poses that scare me. To shift my vision. Sometimes it works, and sometimes (ok many, many, many, many times) I fall. The beautiful thing about it, is in learning how to and why I fall, brings me closer and closer to being upside down.

See you when I see you.

Julie.

An alleged yogi.