🗝️ Week 2: Gate Pose (Parighasana): Seeing Beyond the Obvious

𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗬𝗼𝗴𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽™.  🌱

This is your calm and centered leadership series, where I share one yoga pose each week with a leadership practice you can use in real time.

Does leadership have to feel so hard? I'd like to offer this as a space to take a breath, set down what you're carrying, and find a moment to re-center before you dive back in. You might be surprised to find yourself with a bit more calm, a bit more clarity, and renewed with quiet confidence.

We're on 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟮 𝗼𝗳 𝟴 in our new 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 series, a set of poses and leadership principles inspired by the arrival of Spring. 🌸

Last week, we opened with Sphinx pose, practicing the act of noticing: noticing what's emerging, what's changing around us, and what's changing within ourselves.

This week, we start to make space for what's new.

🗝️ 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟮: 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗲 (𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗮)

𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲: 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀

Gate Pose is about expansion. You kneel on one knee, extend the other leg to the side, and stretch your arm overhead, opening the entire side of your body.

It's not forward movement. It's reaching in a new direction. Making space you didn't know you had.

Spring doesn't just grow upward. It finds light in unexpected places, and reaches around obstacles.

Leadership works the same way.

When the path forward feels blocked, when the obvious route isn't available, sometimes the answer is looking beyond what's directly in front of you.

A different perspective. A new collaboration. A shift in approach you hadn't considered.

I see this often.

Many leaders stay stuck because they're only looking straight ahead. They keep pushing against the same wall.

But real growth often comes from unexpected corners.

Gate Pose teaches us to look at another direction and open our reach. To create space where there wasn't space before.

That's where new possibilities live. 💫

🌱 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲

This week, notice where you're stuck moving forward.

What opens if you shift your approach? What becomes possible if you look beyond what's directly in front of you?

Look for the different angle: the unexpected view, the path around the bend.

💫 𝗔𝘀𝗸 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳

𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑏𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠?

One breath.

One pose.

One practice at a time.