Finding My Balance

Take a deep breath.

Let it out.

Do you feel balanced? If you said yes, fantastic! If you said no, join the paaartay. Finding balance in your life is hard and is something that is ever evolving. If you feel balanced one day, the next day something could throw you completely off.

In the fall of 2018, I was a month into a new job dealing with health issues, body image issues, and feeling all around crummy about myself. I couldn’t figure out how to get into a good routine with a crazy work schedule.

My mom suggested, the previous spring, that I take up yoga. She’d come back from India with her own renewed sense of balance and took pleasure in her new morning yoga routine. At the time, I just couldn’t do it. I’d done yoga on and off for years, but never connected with the practice. But when October 1st came around, I decided to give it a go.

Vashistasana. November, 2018

I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I had no idea I had just altered the course of my life. But I did. With only twenty minutes of yoga a day, either via Youtube video or my own flow, I began to find balance. The peace I found in those quiet morning moments helped clear my eyes to what my life, at the time, had to offer. I found more joy in my job working with kids, I reacquainted myself with what self love looks like, and I now had a deep connection and love for what my mother had introduced into my life.

Utthita Hasta Padangustasana. December, 2018.

Six months have since passed, with about an 80% success rate of morning yoga seven days a week. Some weeks I hit only six days, some only three. But it’s not the number of days in a week I get on the mat, it’s the feeling those twenty to thirty minutes provide. I now call it “my morning coffee” (since I don’t actually drink coffee). It’s a clearing of my mind and a warming of my body to give thanks for all it does for me. Though on some mornings I might feel jigglier than others or fall flat on my face—struggling with my physical balance, I’m probably the happiest I’ve been in years. I’ve found balance, at least for now.

Stay tuned for what’s to come as I travel to Tuscany in the fall for a 200HR YTT!

Mother and Daughter. Annapolis, Maryland. December, 2018.