The Flow State - March 2026 I

Erin Clair
Mar 8
2 min read

Dear Community,

Whenever I teach any music-based yoga class, I listen to the playlist multiple times in the hours before class to mentally go over what I want to teach. This morning, in preparation to teach a Sunday reggae power yoga class (because it was going to be 57 degrees in Boston, which is basically Jamaica for New Englanders), I was jamming out in the shower to Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry." How could one not? I remember growing up my mom would sing that song at the top of her lungs whenever it came on the radio. So there I am singing and chuckling to myself about how men think women make them cry when it occurred to me like a bolt of lightning...holy crap, Bob Marley isn't saying "women make men cry." He is saying, "woman, don't cry." He is comforting a woman and telling her not to cry, even though life is hard. Everything is gonna be all right, he tells her.

I swear to you, I stood in the shower staring at the wall dumbfounded by this realization. For nearly 50 years, I thought "No Woman, No Cry" was a tongue-in-cheek woman-bashing song. All this time it was saying something that's pretty much the opposite. I never stopped to really hear what he was saying. I heard the song through my own assumptions and never bothered to actually listen.

Perspective changes everything. Like a gift, this moment reminded me how important it is we remain open to being wrong. After all, we can only learn if we are open to how little we know.