No Pressure
First blog post…no pressure or anything. In all serious, for once in my life, I don’t feel the pressure to label this as a success or a failure. And am I the only one wondering, “How does one even measure that these days?” – Likes, shares, praise from friends, acquaintances, or even strangers? I wouldn’t know where to begin; and what’s cool is I don’t feel the need for validation…truthfully, for probably the first time in my life.
For me, this – yoga – practicing, teaching and writing about yoga as a practice in everyday life is what I feel I’m meant to be doing; I guess you could say it’s my “soul purpose.” What’s the point of writing if the words aren’t painfully honest and the writer isn’t completely vulnerable? Whether your writing is a cathartic exercise to simply get your thoughts out of your head and onto paper, with no intention of sharing, or you’re writing for the world to read your deepest life philosophies, and to inspire…there is no purpose in holding back.
And to be clear, when I say philosophy, I’m talking about the human stuff – relationships, addictions, love, death…the good, the bad, the ugly…what makes us human beings – I won’t share my opinion on global warming or whether or not Trump is fit to be president; there are already enough people doing that.
To get back to the “yoke” of it…
In my studies, I learned that before yoga became a noun it was a verb. I'm certainly not a yoga historian, nor do I claim to be an expert about the evolution of yoga pre-westernization. All I know to be indefinitely true is that yoga as a verb resonates with my personal journey and how this practice has changed my life on a very real and spiritual level:
“Yoga is a process. It’s active. It’s the way you engage with the world to create harmony. Yoga is how we participate and create relationship.”
And that process – the practice – is not always pretty. It’s messy…it can be both crazy and beautiful. It’s called life! And I’m ready to share my practice and life with the hope that I can inspire others to do the same.