At the time I went through my yoga teacher training, my excitement, passion and love of these new found practices & knowledge carried me through. I went out to teach many different classes and groups of people and it felt like this joy would never end. Teaching yoga had sparked a new found confidence in me which I was very grateful for. Little did I know my true lesson would be learning how to conserve my energy.
After, the dark days, post COVID. Something changed, in me and in my environment. Big transition and with these came new beginnings. For me this was a turning point, a time when I was forced to slow down. What’s the saying? If you don’t slow down, the universe will make you? In this case Mother Earth and the government slowed us all down.
The light in the dark came through as we started seeing natural habitats come back to life. We saw Mother Earth thrive when human activities got dismantled for a while. Perhaps the lesson here is that we are stewards, and apart of the earth, not separate from. And leaning into ways to support our Mother, so that our energy can be conserved as a whole, and channeled into the love and care of our world and communities. Let’s sit with this and take divine action.
By 2021, I had been teaching four years and already had by 500 hr yoga training certification. Around then the illusion of constant passion, an attachment of happiness and a pretending that everything is always alright came to a halting stop. There was no yoga-ing my way through anymore. And although in hindsight, it felt like my world was shattered. And my yoga practices that used to insight joy, I now blamed for this massive shift. Looking back, I would do it all over again because this was the gem & when my yoga truly began and it revealed apart of myself that had been hidden. Now yoga feels like a coming home. The illusion had dissolved and there was no where else to go but through.