Happy New Year! After a few good rounds of the sun salutations, a good Yoga session always ends with the Savasana pose. Lying flat on your back, arms and legs outstretched, breathe deeply and feel blood flow into all of those unknown spaces in your body for just a few minutes. I call it 'naptime' pose, but really it is more than simple napping--it is wakeful resting to build awareness of and appreciation for your body's internal processes.
And in this moment of post holiday revelry and transition into a new year, I wish us all a good Savasana. It is moments like this to savour, to rest for a minute and to let ourselves catch up before we plow ahead into the day to day routine of another year.
No matter the journey behind us, we've still got much ahead. The labyrinth unyieldingly beckons.
The Mille Miglia was the most famous of all Italian road races and the thousand mile route varied from year to year, despite always starting in Brescia and including a run through Rome. Pointing the way for the drivers were little red signs, such as the one pictured above.
I wish all of us a good Savasana and a heaping helping of little red signs to point the way in 2009.
*quote from John Green's Looking for Alaska, a recommended favorite read from 2008.
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