Yoga Journal #28: Emotions and Gratitude

Woke up with a slight hangover #fail and felt a bit sicky in the first forward fold – especially when I closed my eyes and felt the room spin – ha!

Class was structured a lot on Hamstrings which I liked – feels good to work deeper into one muscle group and see progress even with one class! Had a great Paschimottanasana adjustment from Lauren to go much deeper.

SUCH an emotional class – sitting in Padmasana at the end with BIG tears rolling down my cheeks onto my mat. Holly spoke a lot about dedication and devoting the practice to someone.

“Breathe for yourself, breathe for the person next to you, breathe for your dedication. Dedicate this practice to yourself. Dedicate this practice to the person next to you. Dedicate it to the people in this temple. Dedicate it to the people of this town. Dedicate to the people of London. Dedicate it to your nation.”

It made me SO emotional! Went to the bathroom after the class and realised that Kelly also had the same emotional experience and then two other girls came into the bathroom talking about how they couldn’t stop crying in the class. So amazing and incredible that we are all shared this experience from one yoga class. Yoga is SO freaken powerful.

In the moments when we were sitting with contemplation of gratitude – Fran came to tell me that she had thanked me for the money I donated to her marathon charity fund. That was really special of her.

Feeling so happy, feeling so loved, feeling so incredibly grateful for this experience and every single person who is part of it.

Taught a short 30 min asana at the end of the day today and I REALLY loved it – I loved finding the words and the placement and giving that experience to someone else. Bit more tricky with someone who already knows the postures as they are moving into the postures before you have instructed it (which makes it a bit difficult to learn which things are the absolute necessary things you would need to instruct someone completely new) but still – absolutely LOVED it and know I am going to just LOVE teaching yoga.

(Surprising to me to hear that some people have felt so anxious about teaching on the course – hopefully that changes for them over time. xxx