Flex Your Gratitude Muscle

“It is not joy that makes us grateful it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” -David Steindl-Rast

This week’s classes will be themed around flexing our gratitude muscle. I’ll be using this theme for both my adult and kid’s classes. I’ve noticed how true it is that once you start a gratitude practice, you find even more things to be grateful for. In our yoga practice we’ll have the chance to flex some other muscles as well but we’ll also focus our awareness on being thankful for our breath, the stretch, and to ourselves for carving time out for yoga. 

A 2015 study at Indiana University says:

“… Think of your brain as having a sort of gratitude 'muscle' that can be exercised and strengthened (not so different from various other qualities that can be cultivated through practice, of course). If this is right, the more of an effort you make to feel gratitude one day, the more the feeling will come to you spontaneously in the future."