11/23/2025
You know how yoga can change your life, and the lives of those around you? Do you know how not doing yoga affects you, your life and those around you? I honestly have only taught my kids yoga a handful of times, but they’ve seen me do it a bunch of times. When I try to teach them, it’s usually a big disaster because I’m their “mom” and they want to be themselves and make their own choices. My kids also know yoga is my work, which competes with my time for them, just like any other job that would require my time. Still, I love that my job is yoga, and that one class can shift someone’s internal state, which is felt by those around them. Parenting is so hard, trying to have relationships with immature nervous systems and big personalities, which are my little mirrors into myself, showing me truths I could avoid or refuse to acknowledge before these little beings came into my world. Parenting is this process of guiding a new little being with their opinions while re-parenting myself as my own inner child gets triggered. It’s a mess that continues to show up asking me to find something beautiful in it and transform old parts of myself in new ways. Transformation is easy to fantasize about, but the reality of turning criticism or perfectionism into acceptance and compassion is really hard to do! Cultivating empathy and patience in place of dismissiveness is incredibly challenging. Staying calm while hearing the defiant screams of a little tot is an advanced meditation practice!! Realizing not getting the red cup instead of the blue actually does make sense when I connect it to how upsetting it is to not get what you hoped for, whether it be an opportunity of any kind, the sleep I so badly need, the Nespresso deal I missed out on, the store I showed up to being closed, etc. The red cup blue cup argument doesn’t make sense otherwise, and the yoga practice of self-reflection has been monumental in helping me understand my relationship with myself and others. It’s not always easy to act on it especially when I need to change old habits and behaviors, but just like yoga how I show up in life is a practice, not done once and fixed, but chosen everyday over and over again.
