Soul Revitalisation Project Day 8

This morning I did my first ever kids yoga class. It was blissful. Well, ok, really it was confusing and loud, but, I really got something out of it. The kids did too, of course, they really seemed to respond well, and some of them made requests of their parents for more. For me, I got to see what I needed to give up, what I needed to let go of.

I struggle a lot with this yoga teacher training, I worry about not being good enough & all that boring brain noise. I can’t get my brain to remember the Sanskrit names for posses and the ability to tell my left from my right goes out the window.  With the kids, it didn’t matter. They had no expectations of how a yoga teacher should be. So I could just be me and in that relaxation, it all became about them. There was such ease in the class, (even they were all as chaotic as the weather) because my focus was in their energy and making space for them to calm and connect with their body.  It was enlivening, and it was just what I needed to connect me again with what is important to me and what I want to achieve on  my yoga journey.

Today was important in this Soul Revitalisation Project. I felt revitalized for sure, but more importantly I felt my soul. MY soul.

I want this level of connection as part of my everyday occurring and I want to feel this freedom and safety to express myself fully.

Today reminded me that I have this already.

I had just forgotten.

Speak your truth – even when your voice shakes.

It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. We want powerful words and songs that can be heard underwater and over land. It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to use the wild language we are learning by heart under the sea. When a woman speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, staying tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in the wild breath-stream of the soul. To live this way is a cycle in itself, one meant to go on, go on, go on. —Clarissa Pinkola Estes