What makes a great yoga class? Is it the teacher, the poses, the atmosphere, or simply that the student is in the right frame of mind? I am not quite sure, but today I went to Springs Yoga’s 4:00pm mixed levels class and it was great. I decided to go to Sandy Springs, because it is about 5 minutes away from Trader Joes, and Sam and I planned to do our grocery shopping afterwards.
As we held our poses the instructor shared little pieces of wisdom with us. Now, maybe if I had not been in the proper mindset I would have been too distracted by my grocery list to listen closely; however, this was not the case today and as my hands firmly grasped the ground in plank position my ears also grasped onto his words.
He kept stressing the importance of acting with your highest attitude. That in a challenging yoga pose, or situation, we must take on a good attitude. This idea became even more powerful when the instructor ended the class with a quote from Victor Frankl, a psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor:
“Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
As I walked through the aisles of Trader Joes I could not stop thinking about how true this quote was. Our situation in life is not always under our control, but our attitude and thoughts are. It is easy to have a positive attitude when you are grocery shopping with your boyfriend and things are going good, but it is even more important to be able to have a positive outlook when life gets tough.
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