Head and Heart Yoga Stirling

It’s often not the boundary itself that’s the problem.

You’ve managed to get yourself to that point, you knew something wasn’t working, you’ve had the conversation, so you’ve decided to take a step back and for a while it all seems clear.

The the feeling kicks in. Hard.

You start thinking about them, wondering if you were too harsh and you replay everything that you’ve said. There’s a strong pull to reach out, not because that’s the right thing to do, but because you know it will take the edge of how you are feeling.

That’s the bit that’s rarely talked about.

Holding that boundary means sitting with the discomfort without trying to immediately fix it. It means being aware of that powerful urge to reach out and choosing not to, even if it would be easier in the moment.

That’s not about willpower, it’s about understanding what’s happening in your body and mind when the pull shows up and having the resources to rely on so that you don’t get swept away with it.

That’s were yoga lives.

Not on the mat, not in a perfect candle lit studio, but right there when everything in you is screaming to react.

That’s the works and it’s exactly what I’ll be teaching in my next yoga workshop.

YOGA - The Practice of Being Human.

No yoga poses, just real tools for real life.

Doors close this Friday and if this feels familiar, it might be time to do something different.

“ARE WE THERE YET? ARE WE THERE YET?”

Just like Bart Simpson in the back seat of Homer’s car, you are asking yourself this same question. Am I on the right path, am I doing the right thing, should I change something?

The pressure of those questions is HUGE because it feels like you have to have the whole thing figured out before you make the first move. So you sit and think about it…over and over again.

It might be your job that doesn’t feel right anymore, or the conversation you’re putting off, or the boundary you know you need to set, and because you can’t see how it all works out in the end, you don’t move. It’s not that you don’t want to, you instinctively know you have to, but it all feels too BIG.

Often, it’s not that you don’t know what to do, it’s because you’re trying to play the whole game like a Grand Master in Chess.

What if it’s not about the whole game, what if it’s not about the whole journey, what if it’s just about the next step? Just one step forward.

That’s the work of yoga and that’s what I’ll be teaching in my new workshop.

YOGA - The Practice of being Human

No yoga poses, just real tools for real life. There’s already some greta folk signed upland f this feels like you, you’ll be in good company.

Doors close Friday 17th April, and with the group kept small, spaces are limited. If it’s been on you mind then it’s time to take the next step.

I don’t want you to miss out.

YOU’RE NOT LAUNCHING YOURSELF INTO SPACE, BUT SOMETIMES…IT FEELS LIKE IT!

I was lying in bed watching the Artemis launch the other night, genuinely in awe of those four brave humans who climbed into that rocket. And it wasn’t because it was easy for them, it was because something in them was willing to feel the fear and still go.

Think about that. How amazingly human is it to face your fear to do something you’ve dreamed of your whole life?

We might not be going to the Moon, be we do face fear and uncertainty all the time.

The fear is there when you know something in your life needs to change, but the thought of what comes next is overwhelming. It’s there when you’re tossing and turning in bed the night before you know you have to have a difficult conversation with a family member and you’re running through every possible outcome, that you can’t possibly predict.

Your nervous system doesn’t know the difference. Fear is fear.

The butterflies, the dry mouth and the urge to back out and pretend everything is fine. More often than not that’s what you do, that’s what we all do…nothing. Waiting until you feel ready, confident, certain…and goes what that moment never comes.

Those astronauts didn’t wait until they knew everything was 100% certain or for their fear to disappear. Think about leaving your family and loved ones behind as you launch yourself in to space at 15,000 miles per hour! No, they trained to sit with it. They understood it and they trusted themselves and their team enough to take that giant leap anyway.

For me, this is what yoga is all about.

Not escaping life or numbing yourself from it, but learning how to recognise feelings rise in your body in those moments, siting with it, grounding and taking that step anyway.

That step is the decision you’ve been holding back on, or saying something you’ve been pushing down for a while. It might just be noticing your reaction before it takes over, which is so powerful.

Not perfect. Real.

YOGA - The Practice of being Human, my new workshop is designed to help you do this.

Great folk signed up already, come join us.

10,9 8… Spacesuit optional.

I’m sure you’ve heard a lot about “enlightenment” in the yoga world. Nirvana, bliss … it’s the place we’re all aiming for, right?

Well, yes, maybe … but it’s highly unlikely in this current human existence.

Meditation, flow, feelings of awe can bring us towards it, but I sometimes wonder if we’re just trying to escape the human life we lead.

Let’s face it, being human isn’t always that comfortable. The rollercoaster keeps going, one minute you’re fine and the next you’re frustrated and overwhelmed.

You might say something you didn’t mean in the heat of the moment or conversely, you didn’t say something you wish you had.

And then you might think, “Why am I not better at this?”. And that’s especially true if you’ve been part of the yoga world for a while.

But you see, that’s not the point, yoga isn’t about rising above your life … neutral and unaffected. That’s not human, yoga is about living your life, feeling it… ALL of it… and somehow trying not to completely lose the sense of yourself in the midst of it all.

Yoga is about living life honestly, not perfectly and that’s is where things really start to shift.

That is the work and it’s what I’ll be teaching in my next yoga workshop.

YOGA - The Practice of Being Human.

No yoga poses, just yoga tools for real life.

There’s already some great folk signed up already … come join us.