13/10/2024
Bathing in the after glow of hosting my first yin workshop ‘A Return to Radiance.’
The concept for ‘A return to radiance’ was inspired by my own healing this year, in remembering and recognising that as humans we always have the capacity to spark, rekindle & ignite the light within us even when we feel it dwindling, or we feel disconnected.
We are always in there, that energy remains, but sometimes we need to coax or reawaken the dormant parts that have had to hide either to rest or to survive.
For me, I had started the year in what I describe as a ‘full blooming,’ I felt alive, joyful, doe eyed, loving, hopeful, energised, then life took a radical plunge in the opposite direction, I lost my sense of self, my glow, spirit, fire.
The moments where I did feel a ‘spark’ of me, a feeling of lightness, a return to a radiant loving self were found often in attending yin classes, in meditation moments and sometimes in warm moments talking to strangers, who reflected they saw a energy about me, even when I didn’t see it.
Through the practises of yin yoga, meditation and spacious nervous system rest myself this year, I was reminded that my ‘Tejas’ (sanskrit word for radiance) was still there, even when I had felt often like I was in the dark.
So today was about stimulating and renewing that fire in us all. That glow that radiates from the heart and into the face.
It was about giving back, offering my own powerful lessons, knowledge, experiences, my wisdom, yin training (hello recent Bali trip) as a way to light up all those in my yoga community.
I went into it so lovingly but still nervous, I had a healthy dose of imposter syndrome… despite teaching now seven years!
But every part of today was beautiful, everything I could have hoped and dreamed of, and I felt so at home again. Back in my element💛✨
