When I first started regularly practicing yin yoga, I wanted to crawl out of my skin, I was so antsy, so bored, so wanting to DO something!! 😬 I’m feeling a bit like that with my life right now, I have no @onwateryoga fun to distract me, no travel trips in the near future, no big workshops or retreats planned, it’s just the routine of life and slow and steady healing.... 🤤 With this slowness, I’m facing parts of myself that I haven’t been ready for, until now, I’m taking time to let emotional wounds heal, I’m practicing feeling my emotions and letting them pass through, noticing where I’ve been holding on and extending kindness to myself, knowing that i am and have done the best I can/could. I feel anxious and sad at times and overwhelmed at others, antsy, bored, and stressed. Because I have practiced yin yoga for so long now, I know that this is just a “moment” in my life, a chapter, it will pass, I’ve practiced this time and time and time again, and I’ve always come out better for it. So, I’ll sit in the discomfort now, for the long term gain of health, healing, and wholeness, because I’ve seen, through yin yoga in particular, that time and time and time again, I gain freedom, clarity, flexibility, and even strength through the pause, the slow, the waiting, the boring, and feel so much better because I do... I will sit still now so I’m no longer running from the past, because the time is now to do so. .
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Join me for some yin yoga in a group setting on Tuesday nights at 7pm at @balance.yogacenter or PM me up about private sessions if you’re interested in more personalized sessions. .
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I took 90 minutes yesterday to meditate, use my @fasciablaster , and give thanks to this amazing, beautiful, strong, courageous, intelligent, intuitive, able, body... it was beautiful and magical. Exactly what I needed to break up scar tissue and give myself some much needed personal self care. I’m feeling it today: a little dazed, a little torn apart, a little raw, like I need some different respite to build back up, needing to move slow, contemplate, let feelings come and go, to heal and pick up the pieces... and so I am: stopping, holding my cup of warm bone broth and just being, still, feeling my wholeness... staring out the window at the green spring growth💐 .
This pic is from Sept. 21, 2017. SO much has happened between now and then: 2 moves, and I’m preparing to move again, evacuated twice by massive wildfires, a halt to @onwateryoga classes because of the 🔥 devastation after running year-round for 5.5 years, a flood, healing from mold toxicity after living in a moldy apartment for 8 months, and many, many, many other things, one being a man...💘 I’m navigating a lot and taking these moments right now to digest so I can move forward with ease and grace, better able to give to those people and the work I love. .
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Jealousy. I actually felt a few pangs of it with my private client last night. We’ve been working together on meditation and preparing her for surgery, holding space for fears, thoughts, and emotions to come and go, losing their hold, and strengthening her peace, making it hers. Last night, after some substantial practice, she got it: that space of “no-mind,” no thoughts, she couldn’t even force thoughts, she had such peace that nothing disturbed it, and she kept it, during, and after the practice was over. She was and knew she was, perfect, whole, One.👈🏼In this moment, as she shared her joy, I felt the feeling of jealousy as I realized that the assistance I’m providing is something I have so desperately wanted someone to provide for me, and as I allowed the feeling of jealousy to be there, I embraced the emotion like a proud parent and recognized that my hard-won, lonely struggles to personally gain what I’d just given to her, were not only to her advantage, but even mine. .
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Hardships may be hard, but in overcoming them they have the power to change not only us personally, but many, many others, and for this reason, I will continue the hard work, and live, not only by example, but be able to teach it with authority. .
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Choked up twice in class today from the cohesively of everyone’s movement not only with each other, but with themselves: poetry in motion, and for all 16. Deep, inherent connection, through a love and kindness to their Self. It was moving meditation. This.... magic... an honor to cultivate, to see, and be a part of... 💫😭💖
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