driving into tree pose

yoga friends

...I'm driving on my way home, guiding the steering wheel
with one hand while thinking about how my yoga students had
been able to focus during class the day before. how had we
managed to center ourselves? it is a challenge to be in the
moment. we try by bringing attention to our body. to get
inside that moment, we observe our lungs fill on inhale,
opening along one side of our ribs by revolving our arms
and torso in co-ordination with our breath, noticing that
increased space on the expanded side, feeling where the
lung's surface is stretched to expose myriad of alveoli to
the direct exchange of oxygen. we compare the same revolving
motion with empty lungs, stretched after exhaling. we are
perceptively tuned in to what's going on inside of us.

then i look out over the hood of my car and onto the road
going by and i realize, all of a sudden, that i have no clue
to what road i'm actually driving on. where was i going? so
much for being aware of the moment.

)ohn