Sat Nam,

This week I will be teaching the third Sutra in our series on Sutras of the Aquarian Age ‘When the time is on you, start, and the pressure will be off’. Although on a whole I’m pretty good at starting something that needs to be done, like most of us I have been known to procrastinate. A great example of that for me was getting started as a yoga teacher.

Each step on my teaching journey has been a tentative one with a fair bit of procrastination in between. When I decided to do teacher training I never intended on becoming a teacher. Once complete the call to teach became strong but I was scared. I’ve always had a fear of presenting in front of others, scared I’d bottle it and not know what to do or say, so at first I wouldn’t teach. But it was my time to teach and deep down I knew that, so the calling to teach became stronger. I would sit in class and imagine myself up the front as the teacher and feel disappointed in myself that I didn’t have the courage to do it, whilst also justifying to myself why it wasn’t for me.

One day that pressure got to much and I thought what’s the worst that can happen, and I bit the bullet and taught my first class. Although I was still hesitant for a while, once I really got started the momentum took me and I found my groove. The more I taught the more I wanted to teach and doors of opportunity to teach started opening for me and here I am today, a regular teacher. I often think about how it was just the decision to start that got me going.

I find it’s the same on my mat. Once I start a Kriya or a pose and get into it the momentum of a posture takes over and I feel the pressure of how am I going to do this leave me.  I may stop and start, but I’ve begun and there’s no turning back from that.

My classes this week at Soul Flow Yoga:

9.30am Monday

9.30am Thursday

See you on the mat. ❤️

Big love,

Adette