I forgot myself so I went back to my core values

The past few weeks I've been debilitated by the fog in my head, dithering about with know real direction. I have been getting very frustrated..........I realised I needed some guidance

So I referred to a post I wrote a few weeks ago about clearing the mind.................

"1. Write it down!...........A letter (that you'll never send).......a list........a story. Empty the confusion, the negativity the stress from your head."

Teaching Yoga can be very fulfilling but it can also be very frustrating and often quite draining.

When you turn a passion in to a career sometimes the pure joy withers away.

Taking my own advise I wrote down a comprehensive list of all the reasons why I love Yoga........

• To actively understand and feel responses in the body
• Control of muscle movement and precision
• Discipline
• The use of different asanas (poses) to obtain particular results (flexibility, strength, balance, toning of the organs, stimulation of the digestive system, circulatory system and respiratory system)
• To be at one with self , removing distraction and crippling thoughts, helps one to stop and live in the moment (grounding)
• Calms the body at times of anxiety, frustrations, teaches recognition of emotional responses, and creates the ability to stop mid emotion assess and recover.
• Breath control, learning to release tension and improve sleep, aid to control thought processes
• Induces a state of inner peace and controlled reaction
• Is non competitive and teaches to reduce competitiveness with ones self. Non judgmental, induces compassion for others
• Can be practised any where
• To unlock all the secrets of the body and invoke pure energy in to manifestation.

This had a profound effect because I remember now why I was so passionate about teaching what I had learnt to others. Yoga is taught and experienced differently by each individual, there is no right or wrong way (as long as it is safe for the body and not detrimental to health and wellbeing)

I want to teach yoga to complement the orthodox practices, I don't need to offer an injury cure, physio etc...I want to teach skills that can help the individual disconnect themselves from the stress, anxiety and disappointment, to go home and use the skills I've taught them to let go of the frustration the competition and to find the pure joy and excitement of their desired profession. To reconnect with their families and learn to be non judgmental and release stress in a productive safe way. To know themselves, their dreams and goals in the purest of forms by taking time everyday to do something non competitive and restorative. to know themselves better. to have something for themselves with out the pressures of doctors, physio's, management, media, the public, their sponsors. To be calm, to let go. to embrace some thing very special. Yoga helps people understand themselves on a personal level to be at peace with themselves.

After all that's why I started the practice. I have to remember that I am the most qualified in what I am, which is knowing how to recover the body so it can perform at optimum levels, to recover from depression, to induce solid changes and positive encouragement. To dig deep down on the rainiest of days and still make the sun shine...... or at least find a brolly. To use natural methods to help people have the fullest happiest healthiest lives. I'm an athlete in this I am the expert because I know about it first hand!!! 

I should never forget that! I can only pass on the knowledge that I excel in.... and wellbeing is it!