28/01/2024
It’s ok to cry on the mat, releases are welcomed here 🙏🏼🥰 it’s also ok to never cry on the mat, neither is right or wrong, they just are. After seeing many people apologise for tears falling ~ I just want to put it out there, it’s ok, it’s actually beautiful to feel on the mat, it’s a beautiful way to heal ✨
This week as I lay in savasana alone in the studio, I cried.
I cried as my heart felt so full of gratitude for the community we have created, grateful that I get to share yoga with you in this beautiful studio, that you trust me to guide you…it’s an honour and a privilege and truly means so much to me, thank you 🙏🏼✨
Yoga means so much to me in so many ways, as it does for many, 20 years ago I arrived on the mat everyday as the practice prepared my body for childbirth.
15 years ago the practice held me in a different way as I’d cry every time I was on the mat, my mat was the safe space that held me no matter what was happening in my life, savasana became the space in which I got to know myself deeply and began to unravel that which I’d been holding, there was no hiding from myself there, and I was ready to get to know me, and the unraveling was part of that process.
And now it feels quite mind blowing and exponentially heart expanding when I truly sit with this, I’m so grateful to share the practice that held me through all three pregnancies, taught me boundaries, brought me home to myself, allowed me to unwind from who I was told I was and to begin to know my Self so I could then share my true self with the world.
So yes, releases are welcomed in the studio, it’s honestly not something that’s spoken about often, but I have more classes where there’s a tear shed here or there than classes without a tear. No one knows, it’s a private and personal thing, a deep coming home to ourselves, meeting of ourselves without the distraction of the outside world, and it’s ok, as a matter of fact it’s welcomed, because if we are able to move into a space where we welcome releases, from ourselves and others, the world will be a lighter place where we’re not holding on so much, instead we can be free to be present in the now, free to simply be ✨🙏🏼💫