One of the books I’m currently reading is Holding Change by adrienne maree brown. There is a section on “Black Feminist Wisdom” with an essay written by Prentis Hemphill, the majesty of loving boundaries. Prentis when viral when they defined boundaries as “the distance at which I could love me and you simultaneously.” In their essay, Prentis distinguishes boundaries from walls. Walls “have a way of keeping you captive when they were once designed to keep you safe.” Boundaries “are responsive, movable, and highly dependent on real-time assessments.” Boundaries “allow us to create proximity, intimacy, distance.”
The invitation is to reflect on your own boundaries throughout the yoga practice - boundaries of skin as a barrier between self and other, muscles and bones as messengers of flexibility/limitation, your precious heart as a container for empathy, emotion, and connection. Perhaps meditating on this poem -
Boundaries- Where I begin and the Rippling horizon of your existence ends. Where I can love you without getting Lost in you.
Love,
Rachel
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