Child’s Pose such a simple pose, then why have I found this to be my most difficult pose throughout my Yoga practice. I always found coming into  Child’s Pose at the beginning of practice harder than any of the twists with my mind simply chattering away the discontent of the day and past that just being in Child’s Pose was like a child trying to sit still for a few minutes, just impossible. My body would twitter and fidget as the Yoga teacher would start  off the Yoga practice by telling us to connect with our breath that I would just feel plain angry and wanted the practice to simply start.  Child’s pose gives us permission to let go of the day and start feeling our body and come into Pranayama and feel therise and flow of our breath through  our body.

 

But after a while as I started to come into breath and understood what the breath was I also started to become aware of my emotions and my resistance to being in Child’s Pose. It was not the pose that was in the way of my practice but my ego and resistance in settling the mind. Surrending my ego meant facing emotions I had avoided for a longtime and so the idea for just sitting for a minute in those thoughts meant discomfort.

 

So I began to slowly explore the ego and letting go of control and allowing myself to feel these long lost emotions. Ever so gradually as I let go of these old emotions I noticed my practice began to take a deeper sense of awakening within my body and soul and I now longer  felt disconneted from myself. 

 

The Child’s pose is a welcome relief to come into from a hectic stressful day and to just simply breath out my frustrations and breath in a new way of being that the Child’s  pose is a great way to start my practice of Yoga.