Inhale. Expand. Exhale. Grow.

'Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will break you with its yearning.  You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed or left, or hurt, or death brushes you near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.' - Louise Erdrich  - The Painted Drum  (Women Who Run With The Moon)

Since arriving back from training I have thrown myself into teaching head first, teaching and practicing daily.. I guess in a way it has softened the difficulty of 'leaving the yoga-bubble' we experienced at teacher training. Now I sit on one of my first real days off from teaching and am able to sit back and try to get perspective on where I'm at with everything. A  lot  of things are changing and evolving in my life right now.. Being at teacher training was life changing, in so many ways. I have come out the other side not a different person; but simply a clearer version of myself. In the hours of meditation and personal practice during training I have been able to find such clarity on myself. To learn to let go of the things which no longer serve me, the attachments I had made to things which really served no good purpose in my life; fears, self-judgement, perfection. To let go of the ideas I had about my life and direction and where I thought  I needed to be. To expe