10/04/2026
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.
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