Am I enough?

Following a very special Thanksgiving Day, yoga-for-a-cause class, I was (naturally) overfilled with joy and gratitude for the honor, the gift, the EVERYTHING I am right now, for my yoga journey: as a teacher and student. I started practicing yoga more regularly when I was pregnant with my son (back in 2002) and started teaching yoga in 2008. I had no idea then how much yoga would end up shaping my soul. It makes sense being that yoga is about "union with the self."

Everyone finds their own tools for self-discovery and purpose but the reason I am an advocate for everyone trying yoga at least once is because it's about YOU. On the mat, you step into your true self. Sometimes that reveals that things we don't want to look at - so yoga teaches us to face those doubts, fears, challenges instead of avoiding, adverting, disassociating, or whatever form of passive healing we create just to survive, move on, push forward, keep going - until that doesn't work anymore. Yoga also opens us the good and reminds us that there's balance between opposition.

Love cannot be known without experiencing hate. We are always working toward balance in yoga, known as Tulasara in Sanskrit. Balance between sun/moon, morning/night, masculine/feminine, ego and soul, and the parallels go on and on. I found my center point on my mat. I think I'm realizing more than ever, after this particular class where everyone's energy was so open, kind and peaceful. Teaching yoga is where I found my North Star. I did a lot of work on myself on my mat as a student but it was teaching that provided the space for me to SHOW UP continuously, SHARE and be open and vulnerable, build confidence, create trust, face fear (every single time I taught class I had to again and again overcome fear - something I think only yoga teachers can relate to, and I got to teach the things I wanted to learn more about, like chakras, Ayurveda, pranayama, meditation, yoga postures and the ***8-Limbs of Yoga.

My yoga journey wasn't "easy" and for a long time I defined it as hard because I faced a lot of hard stuff and worked through healing trauma of my past and present. Then the shift came, one day, where I made my choice, using all the wisdom I gained from teaching and practicing yoga, and the path was revealed. That was back in 2019 - not long ago from the time I am writing this now. Everyday since I chose ME, has been the best day of my life. Each day gets better and better because I keep moving toward the source of my own light and abundance. We often make choices or feel there's only a choice between push and pull in life. Meaning, I feel I am not enough so I either push for more or get pulled away from my truth.

There is MORE THAN ENOUGH and YOU ARE ENOUGH.

We are abundant.

We have everything we need already within us. The universe wants to over us all abundance, which we are all worthy of receiving. You just need to know this is true, believe it's true and it will be true.

I am enough. You are enough.

This right here, is abundance. Namaste.

***The 8-Limbs of Yoga: Became my faith or spiritual guidance, like a religion: They are: Yamas (Restraints), Niyamas (Observances), Asana (Posture), Pranayama (Breath), Pratyahara (Withdrawal of the Senses), Dharana (Concentration), Dhyana (Meditation), and Samadhi (Bliss). Samadhi (Pure Contemplation)