straight and narrow?

I have begun to try to incorporate a daily morning yoga practice into my life. Today I started by cleaning the spot on my wood floor where I would practice with Lavendar Oil. My towel came up really dirty, which means that my entire floor is filty all the time. I have these straight wood slats in the floor-and by my estimation my shoulders and hips are about two slats. So I placed my hands and feet very carefully aligning them on the slats and when my body is straight it feels mis-placed. What feels right to me is to be completely disoriented. I reminded myself to be patient as I start this new course in living.

As I practiced this morning I realized that my hips were full of memories, sensations, and they were speaking stories to me about things I had held on to, people that still were present, old feelings that are stored deep in my muscle memory. There are places on my feet and back that I have just begun to have sensations. When did they turn off? I don't remember having ever felt them before. My body/factory has been running with out any one overseeing it, caring for it, nourishing it...I am interested in all things body right now. I want to hear the stories stored in my fibres and let them go, so that I have room for new stories, new correspondence, new and refreashed life and love.