Often in our Mindfulness or Restorative Yoga sessions we are invited to set an intention at the start of our practice. I have done this myself when I teach, inviting my students basically to create a goal, a pre-conceived outcome. And yet what I really teach in all my embodied practices and what I want my students to experience is whatever happens in the moment.

Aimlessness is the opposite of intention.  While we couldn’t possibly live our lives completely aimlessly, we can commit to aimlessness in our embodied mindful practices. No striving, no judgement and no expectations.  From now at the start of practice I intend to say to my students feel free to invite whatever you like into your practice.  An invitation, to me, feels more like welcoming or attracting something and less outcome driven. 

Just as water flows on the path it needs to take, allowing ourselves to simply be as we need to be.  Very freeing, very moving and very powerful.

By Beth Montgomery