Happy Middle of the Year day! What a great time to check in on your goals and dreams!

I shared a brief story from today on socials; thought I'd share the full version for you here. May it bring you some hope or inspiration, even if that means you know that you are not alone in this journey 🧘‍♀️💫

Here's the song referenced: https://open.spotify.com/track/0IRw4SgOUuiAjzLlnAoZMP?si=a7ea108482914262

Every now and then, a day brings with it energies that are just HARD. People, places, things in life all play a role in this human experience.

I have a ton of water in my astrological chart: I feel emotions deeply and have only recently started to really understand how to not allow those emotions to control me the way they used to.  But occasionally, they still get the best of me.  

I have to allow them to move, flow, come and go. It’s almost like a surrender. I don’t try to ignore or force them any more. My mind is no longer trying to manage, process, justify them when these times come.  

Instead, I hold space for them, observe them, FEEL them, and then release them.

It’s hard to explain just how much as deeply changed and shifted for me over these last 3.5 years, much less how much has changed over this past almost 2 decades of practicing yoga. Sometimes it is REALLY HEAVY. Sometimes it’s bright, light, and completely blissful.  It’s both and I honor both, as without one I wouldn’t have the other.

Feeling not in my usual energy, I worried about the class I was teaching, yet used my breath and mindfulness tools to maintain my focus and clear my mind.  A student commented after class how this my class is the only one she is drawn to, and how this class tonight helped her immensely as she’s dealing with her father in the hospital. That left me feeling so honored; that I can serve and help others even when I’m not at MY best!  And also, happy that my funky energy was managed well with my tools and didn’t come through in my teaching.

I then opted to participate in Elissa’s Restorative class instead of sitting to eat and do work.  I had been on the verge of tears and desperately needing the stillness.  My soul was crying for it even before I woke up this morning.  And restorative it was.  Being hustled in by the blankets, feeling the comforting grounding weight of the sandbag, while shutting out the world with the eye pillow.  Stillness.

And upon returning from that unknown place of stillness, quiet, and peace of savanna, this song came to me.  I let it play through my mind and heart, surrendering, honoring, and holding gratitude for it all.

#YogaJourney #Mindfulness #EmotionalRelease #TodaysReflection

Much love and many hugs,

xoxo

Jess