Are you waiting until the right time to begin your practice?
The truth is there is no right time. At any given moment there are any number of things that can grab your attention. Waiting for it to be calm and clear means you could be waiting forever.
It is the ultimate yogic approach to simply accept the chaos and go for it anyway.
That is what my practice looked like today. This morning I settled down into my little yoga corner, a space that is just wider than my mat and not much longer either. My kids are on winter vacation and I knew it would be a day full of parenting so this was my shot at zen. I didn’t even bother to take my jammies off. I just got on my mat and began.
Usually it feels cozy to be in my yoga corner, tucked away from the rest of the house.
However, this morning, it ended up looking like this.
My son brought his giant crane truck over and then my daughter joined him. And they argued over who would hook up what vehicle, how to wind the crane, where to turn it, where to dump it all while sitting about 6 inches away from me when they could have been in any other spot in the house.
Just out of the range of the camera was my 75 pound dog who wanted to be RIGHT next to me.
If I waited until the perfect circumstances presented themselves, I would never practice. That’s just reality. Today I knew I needed the practice and so I did it. For a full hour. An hour that was, in many ways, anything but peaceful, but was still filled with stillness. And I am the better for it.
Don’t wait to start. Just go do it.