I just sent out a newsletter today for August. I’m excited for some new changes and things that aren’t even on the calendar yet.
Sometimes I struggle with translating the things I want to offer as a Yoga Therapist and Yoga Teacher, into a way that my students connect with. Letting the inspirations I’ve had over the last few months translate into new classes, workshops, or groups.
Generally, I try to keep the toxic positivity away from my thoughts, life, and practice. I’m telling you this, because it feels like we are living through a time which is rife with fear, manipulation, and demotivation. I feel it. I swim through it in my own mind and life.
There is a disconnect, between what I feel coming in from the outside and what I want. I get excited to offer new things, and then I get overwhelmed, or scared, or demotivated.
Today I was tuned into a new resource. I picked a podcast episode from The Biology of Trauma podcast with Dr. Aimie Apigian. She said, in reference to a trauma response, a shutting down…. “We disconnect when we realize we don’t have the power to change something that is painful in our lives.”
Just wrapping words around this idea in this powerful way is right on the edge of shutting me down. It so smacks of lived truth.
My new task for myself is to acknowledge when I disconnect and see if there is a way to relate differently to the things I can’t change. Or if putting more resources into doing, being, and sharing the things I can change helps keep me going when I run up against a painful thing I can’t change.
Let me know if you want to join my group, code name “Staying Connected.”