Episode 28: The Resilience of a Yoga Friend
Have you ever slipped up and having it cost you everything? It is humbling to remember that we are human beings after all. This episode is a conversation about hard lessons that go with any life story and the people you hold dear in those times. The essence of yoga for Kim is connectedness to herself and others. When you live yoga you feel loved, supported and felt a sense of purpose, Kim says, “It helps me to see and live beyond the superficial.” Episode highlights:
Kim shared a time in her life when she resumed talk therapy with an intention to work on the dark sides of her life and to improve boundary setting without shame for doing so. Yoga has lead her back to her practice of self-love, self- compassion, self-empathy and self-forgiveness! The difficulty for her is to bring the practice off the mat with more emotional health and inner happiness. As sense of greater - responsibility, mindfulness and compassion she shares that this is difficult for her because I am flawed and sometimes I need to make this same mistakes more than once to learn from it.
Pain shows you your unconscious habits and joints you into awareness. Second Chances! Out from the nest of her bed and back into extension opening up the front of the body allows Kim to feel lighter and balance her mind. “I am smart. I am intelligent. I am kind. To remember that I have a light within me that burns bright this is my inner will to survive, it is my compass. While sensitivity, vulnerability and wisdom connect me to others.”
Have you ever slipped up and having it cost you everything? It is humbling to remember that we are human beings after all. A conversation about hard lessons goes with any life story. The essence of yoga for Kim is connectedness to herself and others. When you live yoga you feel loved, supported and fell a sense of purpose. Kim says, “It helps me to see and live beyond the superficial.” Kim always asks her clients to not put her on a pedestal because, like us all, she is a flawed human being and learn from hard mistakes.
Kim shared a time in her life when she resumed talk therapy with an intention to work on the dark sides of her life and to improve boundary setting without shame for doing so. Yoga has lead her back to her practice of self-love, self- compassion, self-empathy and self-forgiveness! The difficulty for her is to bring the practice off the mat with more emotional health and inner happiness. As sense of greater - responsibility, mindfulness and compassion she shares that this is difficult for her because I am flawed and sometimes I need to make this same mistakes more than once to learn from it.
Pain shows you your unconscious habits and joints you into awareness. Second Chances! Out from the nest of my bed and back into extension opening up the front of the body allows Kim to feel lighter and balance her mind. I am smart. I am intelligent. I am kind. To remember that I have a light within me that burns bright this is my inner will to survive, it is my compass. While sensitivity, vulnerability and wisdom connect me to others.
As yoga professionals, its important that our students/clients don’t put us on a pedestal or view us as some sort of guru. We are also flawed humans working to better ourselves. Someone once told me, “you need only know one more thing than another to be a teacher.” That phrase always stuck with me because it’s multifaceted - it suggests we are all teachers, that we should have confidence in sharing what we know, but also be open to the teachings of others. In the yoga community, more than others (IMO), there is a willingness to be open, forgiving and compassionate to the struggles of one another and we’ve found a way to use this practice and it’s philosophies as a tool to build our resilience. It just happens to have worked so well, we cant help but share it with others.