Fetal Position

Sometimes I like to return to fetal pose to remind myself where I came from, what I used to feel like. I mean I was inside my mother for at least eight months. I was upside down and backwards; not really sure what that means, if I was excited to get out or I didn’t want to or I maybe I was confused. Fetal pose feels good. This reminds us of the death and rebirth of our practice. They say this at the end of a yoga class before we “all bow together”. I just learned that Namaste means hello so it doesn’t really make any sense to say that all together at the end of the class, when really at the end of the practice is when you’re leaving. But something about doing the fetal pose, laying on your favorite side, remembering where you came from. That I do like.