Life is without meaning.
YOU bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is whatever YOU ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
– Joseph Campbell
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This week, I was planning to share quotes on the subject of LOVE as we head into Valentines this weekend … but it might be too sappy? lol for me.
Instead I keep having an image of these beautiful dewy eyes of a yogini I met at Judith’s training… her words still rings in my mind – I can teach 6 vinyasa classes easily in place of one restorative class – Counter intuitive, isn’t it? She created a class at her local YMCA in NY for sufferers of cancer and caretakers of them. Recalled she mentioned that getting the YMCA to acquire all the props took some effort but by giving the director of YMCA New York a private session, she says, the director then became a convert and a strong supporter and helped purchase all the props for the new class.
Actually this is after all a story of love – maybe not the romantic kind but love in a sense of … humanity. Everybody has a story and cannot be discounted. She had lost her best friend to some rare form of cancer and her service is a tribute to her friend’s memory that she wants to help heal others – I know you feel so helpless and powerless when someone you love suffers or even ceases to physically exist. While it’s partly our fault for billing it as this or that for marketing purpose, sometimes I think there’s a misunderstanding – it’s not that we don’t want to teach vinyasa flow, seemingly the most popular yoga style that normally our 200 hrs. TT is all about, it’s just that many of us feel more inspired or find meaning or … should I say, alive with a blend of energy therapeutics that might help someone feel better.
Real restorative yoga session, for the teacher, can get exhausting – I would liken it to a physical therapy session where your student/patient might be recovering car accident victim, and you must lift him or shape him, mold him into a pose as – you are setting him up into it. The setup must be perfect since the setup is …the pose. Group sessions are exactly as it’s billed – spa, a stay-within-cation – an escape – a petit retreat that allows for not just respite but for the creative juices to flow. Click Here. Either way, if it’s meaningful to you, then, it’s all good – I love to teach with no discrimination and so I hope to embark on my 500 hours journey this year along with more serious acupuncture studies – as I am multi-tasking my pace will be slooooooowww so I can hold my focus and attention to each intention set:
