It’s mind over matter I tell myself as I try to stop the chatter in my head and breathe into cat-cow. I’m late to a new yoga class and it’s a bitter cold morning but I’m here now and committed. The class is small and a place was made for me the new girl AND the late girl so I wait for the pearl which always comes to me during Yoga. What will it be today? Be patient with delay? Our teacher says “mind and body go together” “Like birds of a feather” I think “Tell that to my hips” someone quips. But as time passes and the flow begins I release what I came in with… tension, worry, and fault finding fade and once again I wouldn’t trade this for anything. Mind and body together now I bundle up to brave the world no longer wondering how.
Julie started writing poetry during the pandemic and has since had her work published in books by Poets Choice and The New York Poetry Society where she presented her case for “Why Poetry.” Julie is in the vintage fashion business selling to clients in the US and abroad and is a media arts creator! She currently resides in Texas.
