Yoga at OHM Newsletter Victor Cotto Vicyasa™ 3/10-3/16/2025: Walk the Walk

Walk the Walk
“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.” - Vernon Howard

(This week's newsletter was composed by our dynamic on-demand teacher and full time writer Elinor Cohen. Check out her Instagram HERE and her amazingly empowering advanced & intermediate sessions on our on-demand archives.)

As the weather finally starts to show signs of Spring, we find that we’re able to start to poke our heads out of hibernation and emerge. 50-60 degree days call for a little extra time spent outside and perhaps a nice walk around your neighborhood. With that newfound spring in your step and vigor to be around friends, you’ll likely see many others walking around and enjoying the fresh air. So let’s talk about it: the walk.

When we think of the word “walk,” we typically think of it in a literal sense, as in moving forward.While forward motion is a great way to approach this word, there are so many other associations that come along with it when you consider modern day vernacular:

• Walk the walk: Honoring your commitments and having your words match up with your actions.
• Walk with your head held high: Standing proud in your beliefs and remaining confident, especially when it’s hard to do so.
• Walk it back: Being willing to admit when you’re wrong and/or change your stance on a situation.

Now for the yoga. If you think about how we move around the mat, you could consider that a walk as well. We walk our hands and feet and bodies forward, backward, side to side in unique variations that allow us to explore different elements of ourselves. We “walk our dog” by pedaling our feet, eventually making our way from down dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana) to forward fold (Uttanasana).

Yoga challenges us to evaluate how we walk around the mat and at the same time, think about how we walk through life. This life thing – it’s seldom a walk in the park. Life throws you twists and turns like you wouldn’t believe, but it’s your job to say “onward” and keep walking. That doesn’t mean you always have to go forward – sometimes the walk will be lateral, and that’s okay as well.

As the weather continues to calm and the days become longer, think about how you walk through life. Think about how you move around your mat. Think about how the two can mimic one another.


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