21/06/2025
🧘♀️ Honoring International Yoga Day — Through the Light and the Shadows 🧘♂️
Today is International Yoga Day, a day that reminds us of the power of practice, presence, and connection — not just to the mat, but to ourselves and each other.
This year, the day arrives at a tender time for me. A dear friend has passed, and life has been showing up with its full spectrum — the beautiful, the difficult, the uncertain. I know I’m not alone in this. Each of us carries our own private weather: grief, transition, joy, fatigue, healing. And yet, here we are — still showing up.
Yoga, at its core, isn’t just movement or breath. It’s a philosophy, a way of being. The word Yoga means union — the integration of body, mind, and spirit; the merging of joy and sorrow; the connection between self and the world around us.
In the Bhagavad Gita, it is said: “Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.” And on this journey, there are moments of stillness and moments of storm. Yoga invites us to stay with both — not to perfect our pose or our lives, but to practice returning to ourselves, again and again.
So today and tomorrow, if you step on your mat, or simply pause to take a breath — do it with gentleness. Let yoga be what it truly is: a companion through grief, a lighthouse in confusion, a soft place to land when everything feels a little too much.
This year, I won’t be offering a live class on this special day— I simply need a little more space to be with what’s here — but I’ll be holding all of you in my heart as you move, breathe, and remember why this practice matters.
Let us honor this day not just with movement, but with meaning. With compassion for our own hearts and for the hearts around us.
To being human. To the mess and the magic. To the practice.
💛 Namaste.
Mary.