When we first start practicing yoga, there’s a lot of newnesses.

New feelings, new thoughts, new positions, new lessons, and of course, new parts of the body that we didn’t even know we had.

But this uncertainty, uncomfortable as it may be, shows up to teach us a more meaningful lesson.

My yoga instructor said it best one morning during opening breathing.

Instead of questioning what this experience is, just receive it.

What a difficult thing for us to do.

Because we’re just so damn addicted to naming, organizing, labeling, and understanding every experience that happens to us. Anything less offends our sense of order and control.

God forbid we simply allow something to happen to us. God forbid we simply accept whatever feelings arise. God forbid we do not know why or what something is.

And so, inside and outside of class, we learn to release our grip on the past and open our hands to receive the new.

Are you missing out on the benefits of yoga by putting yourself on a need-to-know basis?