Yoga Baby Wants MORE!

At six months, Baby Ben is a yoga savant!

Resting Baby pose is a cinch.

So is Cobra.  And Corpse pose, too.

                                                                             Corpse Pose? Shoot, I can do that in my sleep!

Upward  Facing Dog-no prob!

YOGA BABY is tenacious! When he wants--really really wants--he goes after it!

Do not be deceived by this seemingly "I love Mimi" behavior. Ben is after that cell phone and he'll climb any mountain to get it!

Army Crawl works. But Yoga Baby wants "More!" 

Yoga Baby wants to CRAWL!

I watch as Yoga Baby rises up out of Downward Facing Dog and flows into Standing Dog. He looks down, then forward, thinking so hard, you can almost see the gears turning. “If only I had one more hand to lean on, I could so do it.”

I know exactly how he feels.

The other week, my yoga instructor had us on all fours. Not in any dog position. Instead, we were on our bottoms with our knees bent, arms looped through our legs, to the outside of our feet working toward some Harry-Houdini-Got-Nothing-on-You pose. Erica was urging me to put my head down and lift my bottom up off the ground. And I was thinking about it.

I was thinking: Yeah, right. How exactly am I supposed to hoist my big ole self up onto my trembling arms. . . I was thinking about how stupid I looked. Thinking about how, any second I might pitch face forward.

Baby B does not think he knows. He is going to crawl.

He isn't worried he might fall on his face. He doesn't care how he’ll look tumbled forward. About how he’ll feel when he lands face down. Or what people might think of him. He doesn't have time for doubt.

He is working on HOW!

Any time now, he’s going to do it, too!

In yoga, in life, in our work, I'm thinking I need to reconnect with my inner Yoga Baby. Stop spending energy on all that other stuff and work on HOW!

HOW ABOUT YOU?

Disclaimer: Yoga Pose names are intended to be descriptive, not correct.