Fruition is My Superpower

Something I love about teaching and practicing yoga is the tools for empowerment. I’ve been realising the significant role it plays more and more lately. And it’s one of the things that got me hooked all those years ago. Apart from the ‘yoga high’, and seeing subtle changes in my flexibility in body and clarity in my mind, when I practiced for long enough I found I was capable of things I hadn’t even imagined. I came to yoga searching for a place to de-stress and discovered a whole world opened up to me. I was able to surrender into shavasana, balance on my hands, and find stillness in tree pose. And with dedication and determination I kept surprising myself with new poses, as well as a new curious outlook on mindfulness. It was like unlocking all these parts of myself that I didn’t know existed! I’d go home and practice new poses for hours, or study Sun Salutations, and use apps to learn to meditate.

A practice that began ten years ago as something so simple then started to sprout into a pathway to take me through life. And I’m reflecting on this journey because even now I am still learning new things about myself and challenging my body to try new poses. I will always be a student. Guided by teachers and mentors, but also believing in the guidance I have within myself. Paying tribute to my desire to learn things on my own so that I feel independent and worthy. But also feeling gratitude for my students who I get to share my practice and teachings with. Students who teach me so much just by showing up, being open to the practice, and expressing their thoughts and feelings.

I love that I get to empower them on this journey. To challenge their ways of thinking and relating to the world, to explore their own unique bodies, and give them tools to learn on their own. This is so important as a means to build confidence and trust within oneself. I know it’s not always easy to go against the norm or to change old habits. I work on it everyday. Sometimes I steam ahead, and sometimes I get trampled on in the process. Either way I find the courage to get up and keep going. But I have to remember that my breath is my anchor, and my body does it’s best to carry me around every single day. I practice forgiveness and try to listen to what’s happening in this moment. And if I can influence one person today to believe they have the power to grow and choose their own path, then my job is done. Even if that person is me ♥️

This was inspired by a quote I read in Osho’s Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously. He says:

“Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence— which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence. And if you are not a coward, it will come to fruition, to flowering.”