New Beginnings
It’s been a while since I stopped writing my blog posts. There were a lot of things I felt like I needed to experience and figure out at the time. But this doesn’t mean that I stopped loving this form of communicating with others. Honestly I think that the written word has become so underrated these days. We live in such a fast-paced world in which we consume content instantly and then move on to the next thing. But in this way we never really remember what we watched because we had no time to process it; Our consumption lacked depth. I have felt the urge to connect to others via this online world, but simply posting on Instagram, Tik Tok, or Facebook lacked the level of depth that I was truly looking for. In my experience anything with true meaning needs to have something of substance beneath the surface that backs it up for a sustainable life. I see writing as the cake and social media posts as the decorative icing on top.
Within the time that I took a break from blogging I went to Mysore two more times and became an authorized teacher, I got married, adopted two French bulldogs, and opened my own shala. These are just a few things that have happened, but they are the most significant things that have happened. Many of these events I will come back to in more depth in other posts. The motivation behind this post is to “burt tua” as we would say in Thai meaning to reveal my project and intention.
This personal blog will be a place where I reflect on the many challenges that come up when integrating yoga and life. Really the two are not separate at all. Life is the most challenging yoga practice of them all. We experience ups and downs every day and yoga is merely a lens and tool in which to observe our own reactions to these events. After recently being authorized on my third trip to Mysore, I have been thinking about a lot of things: How do I want to practice, how do I want to teach, and what kind of community do I want to build? I do not take this role lightly. To me it is not a decoration, but a huge responsibility to build something of meaning in the world.
Being alone with these thoughts made me realize that I needed to start writing again. Sitting alone with any thought or feeling for too long isn’t good all the time. Sometimes these struggles need to be shared in order to remind us of connected humanity. We all have these moments of doubt and the question of “What do I do next?” This is part of life and together with the yoga practice, we can attempt to make it a purposeful one.
