Problem: Terrible Posture & Poor Attitude
Solution: Take Flight with Yoga

Jennifer Holliday tears the roof off the church with her hurricane-force vocals in “His Eye Is On the Sparrow” from this 1986 gospel show. If God’s loving care can take in even the smallest, simplest creature such as the sparrow, there surely is enough to go around for individual humans, as well. Now, yoga isn’t always welcomed among Christian fundamentalists, many of whom hold suspicions that it is an alternative religion or that its focus on the body is excessively earthly, that its emptying out of the mind during meditation may be an invitation for Satan to rush in with his own agenda. So, linking an old-time gospel tune with a yoga pose may seem to be going too far. Wait. There are connections.

Sparrow is a balance pose in yoga, that begins in a very solid, earthbound Chair pose or “Utkatasana,” and, yes, takes flight. By lifting the heels from the floor, one’s balance is shifted from a strong base forward to the balls of the feet, into Balanced Chair pose. The chest is still well-lifted away from the thighs, with arms still stretched forward and gaze downward. To transition into Sparrow, one sends arms behind and interlaces the fingers, lifting the joined arms upward.

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