Finding Yourself in the Grief

If you would have asked me 5 years ago, where do you want to be in 5 years, I would honestly have no clue. I was stumbling between things. I did know that around this time 5 years ago I really dived into my yoga practice. I had made the decision to go through teacher training and teach yoga on the other side. My ideas or my niche was going to be something powerful that spoke to my runner friends as that’s what identified with most. 

When I was met with physical challenges at the time of my teacher training, I was still practicing rajastic yoga and it wasn’t until I became still that I found the healing begin. It was the yin to my yang (literally). I fell in love with restorative and yin practices and it created sattva in my body, mind and spirit.

The grieving process isn’t just about losing a loved one. It’s the process you go through in life as you leave the old layers behind. It’s giving recognition with the difficult parts, allowing and accepting them, investigate how its manifesting, and offering non-identification of what the emotions may be.

Speed up about another 4+ years and I’m living what I sought out. Kind of. My next 5 years I have some amazing goals. As I’m grieving my former self, I take a look back and think “What a journey”! It looks a little clearer on the path ahead and I can only say that the ideas I have ahead will bring love and abundance.