Containment, Restraint, and Self-Love (during the holidays)

This is for your (1) if your fuel tank runs low, (2) if brownies have more power over you than you do over them, or (3) if you find that your self-critical voice goes up in volume this time of year.

Containment:

In many ways, the practices of yoga are about containment. They require us to have a measure of discipline and self-awareness about our “container.”

We ask questions like: Who are we? Where do we end and others begin? What fills us up? What depletes us? How do we know where our boundarie...