15/11/2025
🏵️HAPPY PLACE🏵️
How beautiful it’s been learning again in such an intense and dedicated way. I feel blessed to have Space to reflect… to breathe… to be.
provided a poignant anchor-point of contemplation for my first week of training… “ what is happiness to me?” … From a yogic point of view, happiness is not a destination or a finish line. It is not a badge of success or a measure of whether life is going well. Happiness is a passing state of mind, an emotion that moves like sunlight drifting across a hillside. It arrives. It warms. It fades. Its gentle impermanence is part of its beauty.
When we try to grasp it, it slips away. When we chase it, it feels further from reach. Yoga and its teachings reminds us that happiness was never meant to be held in a tight fist. It is a visitor, not a possession. (and that can be said for all other emotions too, including the ones we don’t enjoy.)
What matters is the spaciousness within us that notices those moments of lightness and joy when they appear. The soft lift in your chest, the widening breath, the sense of brightness that moves through your body. These moments are gifts, not goals.
The deeper practice is not to cling to happiness, but to cultivate the awareness that allows you to witness it, savour it, and let it pass without losing yourself in the longing for more.
In that awareness, a quieter steadiness grows. It is less dramatic than happiness and far more grounding. A sense of presence. A sense of being here, in this breath, in your body, in this unfolding moment.
From that place, happiness arrives in its own time and in its own way, like a bird choosing to land on an open palm. No grasping. No measurement. Only experience.
🥰🕊️🙏
P.s… last photo is me happy, but very tired, at the edge of my energetic limit… first photo, is me happy too, but bright eyes, bright heart and ready to go! …I’m always so amazed at how our faces, eyes, bodies tell such a story of where we are at. And how, with a little rest, love and care, we can show up brighter and more alive than ever! 🥰
Love love love X
