It feels a lot like love

Often times, people attend a yoga class or meditation thinking they need to immediately shift their energy to a calm state, or they may feel the pressure to look, act, or be a certain way. Whether that’s doing exactly what the teacher is instructing, or bottling up their restlessness, or forcing themselves to feel what they’re simply not feeling. The truth is, yoga is simply asking you to show up exactly as you are. And my role as an instructor is to help you and guide you to connect with yourself. Even if you decide to come to class and lie down the entire time, you’re still choosing a self-healing moment. You’re still connecting to your intentions and giving yourself the space for self-inquiry. My yoga sequences will support you in creating a specific energy, but you can also receive that from the frequency of my voice (it’s one of my gifts). The most important thing is to listen to your own internal guidance. It’s a workout for your soul.

In ancient times, yoga was a practice that was shared from teacher to student in a way that elevated the teacher as a guru and created a very specific framework for self-awakening. There were rules, structure, and linear pathways to realization that, perhaps, were appropriate for that time. But we are far removed from those times. We are now in an age of the inner guru, a time when all of the teachings are available for anyone to access. A time when we don’t have to leave our home to achieve spiritual connection or receive wisdom from our favorite teachers. We’ve evolved beyond the simple structure of doing a posture to feel a certain way. Now, in the Aquarian age, we have unlimited resources to awaken our own inner pathways.

So don’t worry about coming to a yoga class to perform or achieve or force what isn’t there. Come to a yoga class to connect with the inner voice, the inner teacher that guided you there. You may get the added bonus of feeling wonderful in your body, but that happens naturally. Come to a class with the simple intention of releasing expectations and receiving what you’re mean to receive. That amazing feeling you get from the practice? It feels a lot like love.