September has been...
Well, I was sick for almost the entire month with a few different health issues. And while it was difficult to focus on anything but getting healthy and being out of pain, those A-HA moments started creeping in offering some insight. Now that September is gone, I've come to realize that the ability to connect to those A-HA moments and listen to what my body was telling me-----yup, is from yoga.
Long 'story' short, I realized there were a handful of things I wasn't speaking my truth about. In the past it was easy to dismiss these internal nudges since I allowed life to distract me. But, practicing and teaching yoga doesn't allow you (or me in this matter) to easily do that. The whole body awareness thing, the ability to get in touch with thoughts & feelings--all that soft and pulpy stuff--while building body strength & mental focus and connecting my mind/body had brought me too far to go back. AND, I encourage my students to create the same for themselves--making it even harder for me to ignore my internal nudges that ask to be dealt with regardless of how murky and heavy.
The details of these situations are fruitless, and ironically enough the outcomes are not even important to me anymore. The real prize here is that I remembered to listen----Listening within so I know what's really up, to say what's up, and know it's ok to say it all. To simply speak my truth. And while we're not always encouraged to speak our truth, we all deserve to do this (doing it with some grace helps).
So, I am now healthy and have addressed the situations that needed attention. And as the universe would have it timed perfectly, I'm off to celebrate life by spending a week connecting to nature in one of the most ethereal American forests, then off to party like a folk-star in Seattle! I don't think the timing could be any better. I really am just sayin'.
