On Monday morning, KT Steadman really showed her dedication to her students. She thought she had fully recovered from her cold and, as luck would have it, she woke up that morning with a raspy voice. She was feeling well but her voice was husky and mixed with her accent, it was even more exciting to listen to her move us through asanas.

Having taken Emily Dillof’s fast paced, butt kicking Jivamukti class on Sunday night (more on that later), it was interesting to observe what holding a pose can do. And holding a pose is precisely what we do with KT. She often says, the pose begins when we want to come out of it. And in holding poses for a bit longer, we learn a new thing every time. The slightest movement will change where we feel the pose and with each second, and each breath, we can go deeper and learn more. So as we’re doing standing splits, and feeling the burn in our inner thigh and shin, we can open more, and start feeling it in our hips. Every moment it changes, like life!

On this Monday morning, KT had just come back from the Greenfest and was stimulated by one of the speakers there. Reflecting on something she had heard over the weekend, she said how, “yoga holds this mirror and as we look into the mirror, it turns into a window, and then into a door,” meaning the closer we look at ourselves, through the practice of yoga, the more of a chance we have to use the obstacles of holding a pose as an opportunity to grow.

Moving through poses, KT reminded us to breathe, “we listen to, are guided by and use the pattern of the breath” sharing something so real and true which is that, “we come into this life with just so many breaths and the idea is to try and make them last.”

And try we do on these amazing mornings at Bernal Yoga.