The Bhagavad Gita says "Yoga is the journey of the self, through the Self, to the SELF." Ever so often I get the time in my day to go on an adventure, to explore and chart the landscape of my body. I call it "Body Mapping". Each time I learn something different about my body and myself. I find places and muscles that I read about in books and seen in videos, and discover a treasure💰.....a new awareness of not only the muscle and where exactly it's located but how it maybe either strong💪🏾 or weak👎🏾, and the impact it has on my alignment. Today in the journey to find more #hamstring length I discovered exactly where my #pectineus muscle is. It's a small muscle but has huge impact as to how it helps to integrate and draw the thigh bone toward my midline. I discovered that my left pectineus is over stretched and weak. I have to engage that one more than my right to strengthen it, and when I do......POW💥, it changes the game for my #forwardfolds. This exploration in my body has enlightened the exploration of my mind. I realized that although I have a weak left pectineus, I have STRONG mental stories (rackets) that I tell myself, that are so strong and so negative that they pull me OUT of alignment and cloud my judgement of myself. There is what happened, then the story I tell myself about what happened. What happened is in the past, but I keep carrying around MY STORY about it, and that has a huge impact on my mental alignment. I have to let go and clear those negative through meditation. My question then to you is "How well do you KNOW yourself?" How often do you spend time with yourself, exploring the deep and hidden parts of your body and mind? Take some time to shine a light 🔦💡🕯, you might be surprised at the treasures you may find! Big shout to my mentor @rockyheron for the lesson in embodying anatomy and for the GREAT PNF Hanumanasana drills. Might play with adding blanket drills to then. Can't wait to see what I learn from our next online session. #bowflex #blackboysdoyoga #blackboysteachyoga #yogawithrocky #uttanasana #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #eatclean #traindirty #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #bhagavadgita #lululemon #lululemonmen (at CrossFit Atlanta)