キノ・マクレガ―のインスタグラム(kinoyoga) - 4月26日 23時05分

I used to spend hours standing in front of a mirror holding my thighs from the back wishing I didn't have "fat thighs". Even though other people appreciated my small, compact body all I knew was that if a pair of jeans fit my waist they didn't fit my thighs and I hated it. The list of things girls can get body conscious about is endless, muffin top, hairy arms, breast size (too big or too small), flabby butt, and now... The NYT just reported that young girls are looking at their genitalia and seeking cosmetic surgery to modify their most intimate parts. It borders on body dysmorphia.
I can really empathize though. The Victoria's Secret catalog was enough to give me an insecurity complex when I was growing up. I didn't have endless online photos and videos to compare every part of my body to. My thighs took the sole focus. My thighs were such a dead zone that I actually could not feel my hips when I started yoga. When I would try to tune in I simply got nothing back. Until one day during a meditation retreat I started to feel something, and what came through was deep sadness wrapped around my legs like a blanket. Every time I looked at my body and wanted it to be taller, longer, leaner, more delicate, refined, or just generally look like everyone else, those thoughts actually took up residence on my body and weighed me down. And until I felt them all nothing could set me free.
After I felt my body I looked in the mirror and realized that there is nothing wrong with my thighs. I look back at old pictures that I never shared and clothes I gave away because I thought my thighs looked too fat, and I can't see it anymore. I just see a beautiful girl who needed to learn to love herself. And I want you to love yourself right now.
This week's #YogiAssignment is Love Your Body.
Step one: Share your vulnerability. What body part are you self conscious of?

Step two: Feel your body. Close your eyes, calm the mind and cover your body in awareness. Let the emotions come.

Step three: Speak love to your body. Write down one positive thing about your body every day this week.
Step four: Lift each other up. Compliment the person who commented above you.

#ibelieveinlove

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