Accepting yourself, accepting others, loving yourself and loving those around you, beyond the societal standards. Fitness is more than a physical practice, it is an evolution of self, emotional, mind, body connection that occurs when you give your body the tools it needs to live on such a level. When we reach beyond the expectations society has created, we learn to live and love the life we create for who we are as individuals. Not just physically but more importantly, emotionally. Getting tangled in the web of comparisons, we end up destroying ourselves on a deeper level, creating hurdles that weren't initially there, which have been built with our own consent. Thus preventing ourselves from becoming our best selves, reaching our greatest potential without distraction. The problem is, is when we compare ourselves to others, we forget that they are more then likely doing the same, and not necessarily in a negative way, but perhaps they look up to you or have found inspiration through you, or aspire to do even a fraction of the things you have through your own journey. So knock it off, LOVE yourself, be proud and live and BE yourself. Let the 'titles' and the labels fall away. For those are just additional, and unnecessary boundaries we are creating for ourselves, which will eventually need to be climbed over, hopped over, broken down to move and grow beyond. These limits which we have set for ourselves, both intentionally and unintentionally, are only that... limits. So with love, and practice, we learn to get out of our own way. Do something huge, something you have always wanted to, taking fear with you, but only allowing it to be the necessary grounding throughout the process. Nothing is too big. So quit building obstacles. Trust yourself. Be Yourself. Do something for yourself that is beyond the box you have created and are currently living within. Stop thinking about it. Just do it. Yoga has brought me to this place in my life where I have met people, interacted with people, both old and new, who have reintroduced the idea of letting me be me, and accepting all that that entails, both the good and the bad, without judgement. Yoga has become my primary love affair, and to express and share all that it has brought to my life with others is a relatively new obsession. I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) in 2010, it has brought many challenges to my life as both a fitness instructor and just on a daily basis through my regular life. However It is through THOSE challenges, which have led me to be better than I thought I could be. OK I'm only human. I have a lot of slip ups, I have a temper and there are times where I want to just sleep and sulk. But then I get up, dust it off and be better than yesterday, try to be or do something I haven't done before. Life is like yoga, it is practice. Every day is an opportunity to be better, to do better, to inspire, to grow. My goal is to spread it like wildfire and for it to do just that- for it to grow beyond us as just individuals, but to create a sense of community and 'togetherness' but taking the individuals and becoming one. "The whole is greater, than the sum of it's parts."- Aristotle.
'Yoga is for every. body.'- Laura. "Yoga will get you, to where you need to be got." - Stuart
Yoga is love. Make it happen. Just think how amazing the world would be if we all lived with the intention of being our best selves and treating everyone else just as such.
