As part of my 300 hour Yoga Teacher Training, I am required to offer karma (read: free :)) yoga classes. I have been trying to figure out the best way to do so, and, equally so or of greater importance, who I would most like to invite on this journey with me. Since I haven't yet figured out how to become perfect, I want to offer yoga classes for people who are like me. Interesting, isn't it, how society tells us all the time that if we smile this way, use this product, or own this thing, that this will somehow make us perfect, or be an indication of how we have finally achieved perfection? Funny, though, I have yet to meet a perfect person. I suppose the goal we have been seeking is actually unattainable after all. Despite my initial disappointment at this discovery, I realized that this is actually a relief. So I can just show up as me? Great. Here I am. If you too are imperfect and want to show up as you, I am ready to meet you where you are. Even if you show up as different versions of yourself based on the current moment in your life. Even if you are stronger one day and less the next, even if you take some time to recalibrate and return to your favorite version of you, one day, hour, minute, or week at a time. I look forward to meeting you where you are, and celebrating that beautifully broken and wonderfully imperfect human being. If you are ready to show up authentically as you, I look forward to meeting you on the mat as me.
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AuthorValerie Ellis, who is in alignment with the Black Lives Matter Movement and everyone whose life is impacted, now or before, by times of social injustice. Archives
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