Sat Nam,

How’s everyone going with isolation?

I’ve been colouring, knitting, cooking, reading, yogaing, walking, teaching, writing, phew that sounds like a lot and I still have loads of time on my hands!  ?

I’m actually enjoying this slower paced energy that has descended on my world and kind of wish they’d lock us down every year for a couple of weeks to allow us and the planet to have a reset.

Which brings me to my topic today, freedom.

I stand by freedom fiercely because I lost it for so long when I had an anxiety and panic attack disorder.

I’ve seen a lot of discussion on how this isolation gig is a loss of our rights, a way for the government to control us, not fair and a loss of our freedom.

I get the frustration, I love going to the beach, going places and travelling, but for me freedom is so much more than how far I can roam.

For me freedom is an inside job.  Having lost it for 12 years at a time when I could physically go anywhere, I know what losing my freedom really feels like.

I couldn’t get on a bus, train, plane, attend a meeting, go through customs, go to the theatre without having a panic attack.  It was so frightening.

I constantly walked around in fear with floating anxiety, waiting for the next panic attack to take hold.

I remember being awake one night in London and looking out at the eerie yellow lights that lit up the street there and feeling so disconnected.  I thought to myself this is hell.  I was so scared I would do something to myself because I couldn’t live with that empty feeling anymore and I woke my boyfriend to help me.

I was trapped in my own mind and I couldn’t see a way out.

I had no freedom.

Finally I found Kundalini Yoga and this amazing technology had the tools I needed to set myself free.

Isolation to me is not overly challenging because I lived in isolation for 12 years.  The difference is back then I lived in perpetual fear where now I live in acceptance and am enjoying experiencing this down time.

I do get bored and feel stir crazy and when I do I go back to my yoga.

Kundalini Yoga takes me inside and allows me to clear through the unsettled energy that causes me angst and brings a beautiful settled peace within.

I lost my freedom in such a way that I was trapped wherever I was and when I finally set myself free with the support of Kundalini Yoga I never again took for granted how important internal peace is.

I stand for freedom and I may be in isolation, but I am free because I am free within.

Let me know how you feel about freedom.

We have moved to an on demand model with our online classes and there will be new content posted every Sunday.

You’ll find my classes are accessible at www.sydneyyogacollective.com any time you would like to sit on your mat. ?

Stay well and see you on the mat. ❤️

Love,

Adette