Flowithgrace

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow. -Vera Nazarian

First practice of October Sped up x3

LOL not me currently The other day I was talking to a friend, and yoga was brought up. I mentioned I hadn’t practiced in almost 3 weeks. She was shocked. This is the usual response I get when I say I haven’t practiced in a while. Being an instructor the assumption is that we practice ALL the time. But even instructors get lazy, or busy, or crave different types of movement sometimes. It’s okay not to have it be an every day thing! Of course that’s the dream, to always be on ...top of your shit. Get up early, do your asana, your pranayama, your meditation, drink some god awful green juice and continue on with your day feeling like friggen super woman. But that’s not life. Life is messy, emotional, crazy, and busy!! It’s okay if your practice falls by the wayside and gets put on the back burner sometimes. Whether you practice yoga, go to the gym, go running, whatever your activity of choice is. It’s cool if you take some time away from it. I needed to remind myself of that today. If you’re in a similar situation, just know the teachers do it to. It’s okay! See more

Sometimes it’s only in the ecstasy of unrepressed movement that we may enter the stillness of our authentic selves - Alexandra Katehakis

Well world, it’s been a while. I had zero interest in sharing anything with the world the past couple weeks. I felt such overwhelm of what needs to be said when, how I need to portray myself to the world. What my role is... I’ve always felt that I had a responsibility to do something great in this world. To create change. I’ve always thought that my only regret in life when I go, would be that I leave this world without creating an impact. ... That thought is heavy. And often I feel as though my days did not live up to the expectation I have set. I became a yoga teacher because when my life was upside down, turned around and heading all the wrong places... this practice helped introduce me to the very ideologies and tools that would end up saving me. I thought, this is it! This is how I can create an impact, help people, and create change. Through the practice of yoga and energetic healing modalities. So I put my butt in gear, worked what felt like endless hours so I could do my trainings. All the while being excited to teach and show people what I learned and how I learned to heal myself. Recently, I felt that excitement dissipate. Teaching yoga didn’t seem to have the same magic it once did. I was taking everything.. waaayyy too seriously. The world. My emotions. My relationships. My practice. My Teaching. Honestly, that’s just not me. I always want to live my life like I’m 4. Without ego telling me what to do. To just live in each moment. And make sure to play. My practice and teaching used to always feel like play. I used to say in almost all my classes let’s forget about what we are supposed to look like in this pose, let’s just play yoga I plan on returning to that childlike wonder, and stop taking life so seriously. Maybe my only impact in this world will be that I show up more for myself than I have allowed. In the way the serves me best. ... I’m pretty okay with that. Hello again world