The One with the Worship Yoga

Yesterday morning, I headed downstairs for my morning workout. 

Nothing out of the ordinary. 

I got through my Jillian 30 Day Shred and decided I wanted to do a few minutes of yoga. 

I have gone through 3 or 4 different yoga dvds so I know the basics. 

After being inspired by Mandy at She Breathes Deeply to use yoga as a tool of worship, I wanted to experience it for myself.

(Side note: I love Mandy. We have quite a lot in common--namely our love of God, husband, and yoga.)

Mandy talks about the Holy Yoga program and she's mentioned putting some instructional videos on her blog--I can't wait)

I put in one of my favorite worship soaking cds by Rita Springer.

I started stretching and trying to develop my own flow of poses. 

Before I knew it I had gone through 4 songs and spent 40 minutes worshiping through yoga.

It was the most incredible experience. 

I sang, I listened, I closed my eyes, I prayed, I cried, I worshiped--

all while doing yoga--doing my body good. 

I look forward to making this a regular part of my lifestyle. 

Relaxing and refocusing--particularly on my Jesus--is such an important part of life to a person like me. 

I have the propensity to worry and stress, so much so that I often don't even know I'm stressed. 

But these emotions present themselves in physical ways in headaches and tension and tightness--none of which are ways to use my body to be a worthy temple for God. 

So yoga can stretch me--physically and emotionally and spiritually. 

It is a tool--a powerful tool--that God can use to allow me to connect with Him in every aspect of my being.