It’s 5:30 in the morning and I’m starting my yoga practice. Blame it on the time of day, mood I was in, or some freaky strange understanding of the universe, but during this yoga practice I found a lot of comfort and understanding in an empty beer bottle on the table.
I was beginning my sun salutations and was sweeping up from uttanasana to tadasana and the green beer bottle caught my eye. It is solid, empty and didn’t have a cap on it. It was open, yet grounded. It reminded me of my spine. I then started watching the bottle as I continued my practice, and gazing at the bottle enabled me to straighten my spine, ground my feet and reminded myself to open my upper chakras to receive – just like the bottle. I then began to imagine the symbols of the chakras lined up on the bottle with the 7th chakra being the top.
This empty beer bottle became representative of my spine, my body, my chakras. Having something to focus on during my practice was a wonderful way to still the mind, and a wonderful way to focus on the properties of my chakras and being stabilized in my postures, yet open to receive also.
When I finished my practiced I imagined myself filling the bottle up with my negative energies and tensions and then taking the bottle outside to smash it on the ground. I felt a strong urge to use this vessel to release my stored tensions and energy that needed released from my body and transfered to the earth. Maybe there is a part of me that needs to be shattered to be woken up, or maybe all of us need a vessel of our own to transfer the “holding” we have be holding on to for too long. Either way, this experience was wonderful and altering to my practice and beer bottles will never be the same for me again 
Find your bottle, find your vessel and release and restore. OM.
