9/365 - Yoga, dedicated to Jessi

Top 10 reasons I practice yoga:

1. To breathe deeply and purposefully, acknowledging what a gift it is to be alive.
   
2. To live with intention.
3. To discipline my mind, body and spirit through prayerful thoughts and actions.
4. To honor my limitations and weaknesses as the foundation of my strength.
5. To find balance through focus and forgiveness.
   
6. To laugh when I fall.
7. To be faithful in spite of fatigue, stress, or despair.
8. To remember that flexibility comes, not from pushing through pain or tension, but learning to release it.
9. To be open to grace.
   
   and most importantly...
   
   
10. To do things I used to do as a kid,
    

like headstands

and back bends.