06/17/2026
My handstands today:
The first time I kicked up, I fell.
The second time, I found balance.
Same body. Same block. Same intention.
Different outcome.
It’s easy to celebrate the balance and dismiss the fall, but yoga asks something different of us. Upeksha, or equanimity, invites us to meet both experiences with the same steady heart.
Because equanimity is not balancing upside down.
Equanimity is maintaining the same relationship to the outcome whether we balance for ten seconds or tumble out immediately.
The block teaches us that support and challenge are not opposites. They are partners. The block supported me as I balanced, but it also supported me as I fell. It was there for both experiences.
Perhaps that’s the deeper lesson.
We don’t have to choose between strength and support, effort and ease, success and failure. The practice is learning to stand peacefully in the space between them—to trust that every experience, even the ones we didn’t want, is part of the journey.
Sometimes the block helps us rise.
Sometimes the block helps us land.
Both are yoga