Pretty Present

I’m an introverted show-off. I know this because the internet told me so. I also have type A tendencies and pitta is my primary dosha. Again, information courtesy of the worldwide web as I procrastinate like a champ when life gets overwhelming.

No matter what needs doing if I carefully place my bowl of second breakfast (yes) on top of the latest to-do list I can just as easily scroll through my Chinese horoscope that starts off very favourably although seems not rate me as a business head.

All of this to say that as big decisions for TYC are decided and ideas are debated and freelance deadlines are met (yes), there has been little time for gathering of thoughts and resetting.

There has been a lot of doing and not a lot of getting done.

As much I’d like to indulge in some solitude I can’t find it at the moment so I get on my mat. And in the last little while I’ve put a lot of effort into being present, of letting go of what’s happening or not happening off the mat, to breathing.

However long you’ve been practicing you’ll have heard those words many times. I’m not sure though, that I really hear them. I know that I think I do. Yup, here I am right now. I am all here! Except while I’m congratulating myself on that I’m more than likely working out my next move for the minute I leave the studio.

This past week I made a conscious decision to actively, for every class, be in the immediate moment. To really listen to the words, to focus on my breath, to be. The difference was phenomenal. And a lot harder than I’d thought, as I had to continually focus on what I was doing, on what was being said. It brought a renewed sense of purpose to my practice and a real sense of achievement.

And breathing! Always a good thing, yogi or not, don’t you think…

That’s the thing about clarity. Sometimes you only see the beauty of it once you’re out of a situation. The beauty of yoga is that sometimes you get to experience clarity right then and there. In the moment.

– Jane

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