Firstly, I hope that you and your loved ones are well and that you are adjusting to this new, quiet way of living. It’s hard to believe that just a couple of weeks ago we were living a “normal life” filled with work, family, friends, holidays, studies and socialising. It almost seems like a lifetime ago.
I’ve had to learn lots of new skills. At the start of this I decided that I wouldn’t teach yoga online, it just wasn’t my thing. However, I discovered that I really missed my yogis and the connection we shared in classes. I decided to “feel the fear and do it anyway” (Susan Jeffers, great book and if you haven’t read it, now’s the time!)
I am so grateful to my fellow Yoga Buddy @Graham Munro for teaching me how to use Zoom to teach my classes. I now teach two classes a week and had over 40 yogis practice with me on Thursday. I even had three generations of the same family take part, all in different homes 🥰
It’s interesting to be pushed out of your comfort zone sometimes and I certainly look forward to teaching my classes, even though I would much rather do it live. It’s great to hear folk chat and connect before and after class too!
One of those lovely yogis, Joanne, gave me a book to read before we stopped. Once again, I decided it probably wasn’t my type of thing, but read it anyway.
It was a great wee book, I’ll not spoil the story but it’s about a 12 year old genius, with a passion for nature, diagnosing medical conditions and a soft spot for counting by 7. When her parents are both killed in an accident her life starts to unfold in a very different way.
It made me think about how all of our lives are unfolding in a very different way. Here are a couple of recommendations to help you to cope in these unsettling times….
I can’t recommend highly enough, Jennifer Main’s Meditations on Facebook, they are so calming and healing, you can catch up on them anytime. Her website is http://www.jennifermain.co.uk
Next recommendation, join the amazing Sue Woodd on the website wiseones.net
Finally, I’m going to end with a quote from “Counting by 7s”. “Two small birds find their way down to the honeysuckle planted next to the bamboo. They speak to me not in words, but in action. They tell me life goes on”
Stay well, look out for each other and spread love and kindness to this troubled world 🙏
Yoga with Liz 