I was at a marketing conference in DC recently and bumped into a woman who is also a yoga teacher. For some reason it always feels so refreshing to meet another yoga teacher in the professional business world (I know there are more out there, so please feel free to comment). It was almost like a sigh of relief when she said "I am a yoga teacher too". Like out of a deep, dark forest of different creatures, you find one that is like you. Its almost like she had an aura about her, bright and inviting, that screamed "I'm into yoga". I thought, I need that aura, but maybe she saw that in me too? Somehow we are both sitting in this stuffy, blase room talking about marketing, and we'd really rather be moving. Living.
Just a few days prior to this conference, I also sat in a teacher training for trauma-sensitive yoga and never felt more alive. Alive and with a purpose. Ok, don't get me wrong, I do enjoy my day-job in the business setting and I do find purpose in it, I am not saying this to put that down by any means. But, to me there is just nothing quite like the purpose I feel with my yoga practice and with teaching. I want more of that. More living. More doing. More moving. More of being exactly who I want to be.
We all have our dreams. And me sitting in that room at the marketing conference that day and meeting this unicorn of a person reminded me that I don't have to sit still. That "almost sigh of relief" that I mentioned when I met this yoga teacher was a sigh of hope. That we both are on the path of finding that life-altering purpose. It's something that we didn't even have to explain to each other. But, when she mentioned how she found yoga and the way her face lit up, I just knew. We both are dreamers. Taking steps here and there, every single day, to get closer and closer to the life that we dream of. Setting the goals and making a path toward that forest where all the creatures are living their life in full motion and in color. Me sharing this is NOT about trying to get you to do yoga, it's to get you to do what you love <3. To #findyourhappy . Whatever it is ---> [you name it]. I encourage you to continue to dream about it. But, as you dream, continue to reach and take the actual steps that will get you to that place. Speak about it and do something that will get you doing it....every day...until it happens. Because that's the difference between ponies and unicorns ;)
xoxo,
Lee-Ann