6 months into my 9 month Yoga & Anatomy course and my interest and hunger to learn about the human body grows with each lesson.
This was the same for me when I started to practice yoga, I could feel the effects that my practice was having on me and my body. I learnt so much from my own self practice. I liked going to classes and being guided but I never fully connected with a teacher. I was always grateful to hear and listen to there knowledge and experiences but for me, more work could be felt and done with-in my own practice.
After I qualified as a teacher I never felt the rush to teach others. I was so happy to continue to deepen with the knowledge and to work with what I had learnt. I have a lot of emotion heaviness that I really wanted to attend to, to free from my being. From my dad getting killed in a car crash when I was 25 to suffering from the disease Rosacea on my face for 13 years, from a difficult mother and throwing myself into work to hide from it all.
I attended different styles of yoga classes to be inspired and be guided along with my dedicated 5 day a week practice and lifestyle. My home practice was sometimes intense, I had to battle with my resistance a lot but just starting with my breath and slowing moving my body, my practice would start to unfold for anything from 20 mins to 2 hours. What I did notice In the classes I attended is I could really feel my practice evolving and the deep connection I was making with myself. If the class I attending was Ashtanga, vinyasa or other, I never felt the need to strive or push past my capabilities, don't get me wrong I loved to challenge myself but I would take the posture and work within my ease to move me closer. I would always take the breaths I needed to flow me through the practice. For me it was never about the target it was always about how my yoga felt within my body. How the breath made me feel, how much freedom and spaciouness I could create in my body within asana and this was the time I started to think about sharing my practice.
It was a natural progress for me. My Yoga diploma was a self progression. I really wanted to grow myself and help myself heal. It was and continues to be an incredible journey, I have come along way but our habits and thought patterns take a long time to break and ease and I know without the dedication to myself, my Yoga practice and all this wonderful knowledge I contiue to learn. What I know is that as long as I am breathing, and have a functioning body anything and everything is possible.
How grateful am I to be able to learn such incredible knowledge from the Master that continues to deepen his knowledge and to absorb and continue to do my own work to be able to share it with so many wonderful people that I am fortunate enough to teach/guide.
When we do our own work and look to ourselves the possibilities for happiness and pure fulfilment and endless.
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