I used to do yoga challenges — not to rack up posts on social media, but to push myself into poses that rarely made it into a regular class. That’s how I found the LXY: the League of Extraordinary Yogis.
The real challenge wasn’t just the pose itself. It was figuring out how to get into the pose, hold it, and somehow position the remote to snap a photo — all at the same time. (See the photos below.)
I’ll be honest — I didn’t have the energy to redo the shots with bent arms, as I mentioned in the Instagram post. Some days, getting into the pose once is enough.
Sometimes things seem so far out of the realm of possibility that I hae to stop, breathe, and look at what is right in front of me.
Two months ago, Boston Yoga Union announced a workshop with the Kilted Yogi — all the way from Scotland. Sure, I followed him on Instagram and had seen his books in bookstores. But did I ever imagine I’d actually do an in-person workshop with someone I followed on IG? Nope. And yet, that’s exactly what happened on Saturday — five hours of it.
Workshops are more than just an extended class — they’re a chance to discover what’s truly possible.
In a workshop with Carmen Aguilar (@2cyogalife), I discovered I could actually get my feet to my head in chin stand. That kind of breakthrough doesn’t happen by accident. Workshops and challenges are intentional. They hone our skills, push us past our limits, and open doors we didn’t even know were there. They’re not something we stumble into — we have to choose them, sign up, and show up.
And that’s exactly how we make the leap from where we are to where we want to be.
But here’s the real question: do you know where you want to be?
Are you even aware of what’s possible? In yoga, Instagram opened my eyes to poses I never knew existed, and workshops showed me how to actually get there. But what about life beyond the mat?
Do you know where you want to be? Do you have a sense of what’s possible for you? And if you haven’t guessed, that’s exactly where this is going — because in life, just like in yoga, you first have to become aware of the possibilities. Then you need to find your equivalent of the workshop: the class, the mentor, the community, the experience that bridges the gap between where you are and where you want to go.
You can’t make that leap — that change, that transformation — without it.
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