“Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.”~Bruce Lee
There is power in nothing. There is possibility in emptiness. Our most true Intention lives in the empty cup.
As a yoga teacher the best classes happen when I show up empty. When I spend a few moments before I walk into the room to empty my head, clear my thoughts, and check in with my heart. There’s no noise there. Our hearts are like this empty cup. Open, ready to be filled with the experience of now.
Our sitting quietly and doing nothing is simply an ’empty the cup’ practice. All of our doing, even if it’s something good for us, like running or yoga, eventually leads us to consider the beauty and possibility that exists in being empty.
As I reflect on some of the most difficult times of my life, I realize that it was my yoga practice that helped me the most. Not the doing yoga, but the being yoga. Getting out of my head, and into my body. The places between the poses, the feeling of space and freedom I experienced at the end, when I was still. The clarity I took with me as I rolled up my mat.
It was in those empty spaces that my Intention showed up.
And now the practice of yoga begins…
Namaste.
*Photo by Alejandra Parejo on Unsplash
