I’ve said from time to time that yoga starts when you take
what you learn on the mat off the mat into your everyday life. Over the past year it has become clear what
my gifts are and who I am meant to serve.
I know that I need to get out into the community and spread my message
of Yoga AS Therapy. To do this I started
calling other providers like chiropractors and various Integrative Medicine
providers offering to speak to their clients and patients about Yoga. But, no one is calling back or responding to
my follow up emails. I feel like I have
been forcing things so I spent some time over the past few days asking
questions around what I can do reach and help more people. I also backed off a little on the DOING, and instead
focused on being open to receive. I
began to think about what it is like when I practice my yoga. I am fully present in my body. I listen to it, feel it, and enjoy it. I noticed that when I was calling and “doing”
I was thinking about the end result rather than being present in each
conversation. I was striving and
grasping for that end result. Today
after backing of on the doing and being more present in each moment, with each
client and in each class, some connections came to me effortlessly and in
unexpected ways. A good friend talked
with her hairstylist and he may become a client. Another client of mine talked to her chiropractor
yesterday and today that chiropractor called her to get my information so he
could refer a patient.
I wondered how many of you have experienced something
similar in your life. You work hard and
grasp for that end result only to find yourself exhausted and wondering why
after all your work it hasn’t come. But
then when you decided to relax around how you expected it to come, all of a
sudden it arrived just not in the way you had imagined. Maybe if what you are grasping for hasn’t
arrived yet it is because there is something you are meant to witness, learn,
absorb or process in order for you to be fully ready to receive.
