Transition in play

Wow. Almost 2 months since I blogged. I've thought about it...I've had things to say, I'm just not sure I knew how to say them, or indeed was ready to share any of it with the world at large. I'll never know if it was actually the Nia training that kickstarted me back to life but I suspect it was. It's too co-incidental for it not to be. I have only posted once since that inspiring week in the midst of the summer. It was hot beyond belief that week and today it feels like autumn. Well, it IS autumn. The weather is cool, the trees are turning and how beautiful they are beginning to look. Another few weeks and they will be peaking...I cannot wait. I love this time of year. It is both a time to reflect and a time to change pace. It would be more natural to slow our pace from summer to autumn but with children returning to school (I know this from the hoards of school buses I am now getting caught up behind on the roads at peak times) and people re-engaging with their normal schedules after the summer, it appears to be the other way around. And as for me, well...finally I find myself with a schedule to keep to as well! It's not exactly full time by any account but I have started teaching yoga again, after a break of just over 2 years! Where did that time go? Oh yes...I was travelling around Asia for most of it...or preparing to...I remember it well. And whilst I didn't do any teaching in that time...yoga was never far from my mind. It was a different kind of practice, a much more "living your yoga" kind of practice with some asana thrown in from time to time, but it's all yoga, that much I do know.


So, I'm back on a weekly teaching schedule and in addition I've also subbed 5 other classes this week, just 3 weeks in to the transition! That is actually a personal record! So, yes, the pace has definitely picked up. It's felt both overwhelming and exhilarating. Quite a mix. But overall if feels great to get back on my teaching mat. I find I learn so much from every class I teach and it inspires me to keep learning, to keep "fresh" as one of my first yoga teachers used to call it. Funny enough, this quote has popped up a few times today and it is one that resonates strongly with me at the moment.

“If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it.” ~ Yogi Bhajan


I feel like my Nia practice has had to take a temporary back seat while I re-engage with yoga and teaching even though it is something that is totally complimentary to yoga. But then, the last few weeks have been special, very special, as my Mum has been to visit. For the first time. That's a big deal. And it was so wonderful to have her close and to spend time with her, not forgetting those who brought her to me of course...it was great to see them too; my eldest brother and his wife. While they were all here I pretty much dropped everything to give them my full attention, after all, it was a rare thing and everything else could wait a while. 


Now though, with all my family safely back in England...it's just us again. Life goes on and I feel so much more inspired to bring more life into my everyday life! Home feels like home again, my injured finger is healing well, I've spent precious time with my Mum and now it's time to get moving. My direction is getting clearer and I like how it's evolving. It's still a bit hazy out there but I'm finding that simply by taking a few steps in a direction that feels right other things have opened up and presented themselves to me and I know that if I keep it up, and keep taking those baby steps....I'll get there. Life is a journey after all....

One step at a time...