It's been almost exactly a year since I posted a blog. I'm tempted to wonder where that year went.... but as I pause and reflect, the answers are enough to fill many posts. It has been a year of inward journey. After 2 years of exploring the world .... Guatemala, India, Nepal ... I have spent the last one exploring my inner world, growing myself, building fertile soil for my next journey.
There is something powerful about the solstice to mark times of transition. I left for Guatemala on Winter Solstice, 2009. I returned to British Columbia exactly six months later, on Summer Solstice. It is two summer solstices later, and I am again called to reflect on the transitions and what is unfolding before me.
This past year has been one of profound paradox for me. Developing myself as a professional consultant while simultaneously developing myself as a somatically based yoga teacher. Playing dressup in 'professional' heels and navigating corporate politics through the week; donning yoga pants, with my raw-vegan potluck contribution to the world of deep emotional connection on the weekends. And through the process finding my voice of authenticity in both. Finding the place where I can bring heart and connection into the corporate world, and where I can bring my professional skills into the powerful realm of yoga and connection.
As I move forward this year, I know that my work life will continue to shift into greater alignment - and with each step forward, I am able to see the incredible value of each step I've taken, perhaps most especially the difficult ones. I am grateful for all the places where I have bumped against the questions of balance, alignment, integrity, and purpose. Those questions have enabled me to be more present in those moments, and to grow from them.... and to make choices with ever greater clarity.
This week I got to play with another level of balance, as I brought my 'professional' skills into a community I care deeply about, and helped them move forward through an important piece of work - that for them is all about connection. I see what is possible when I bring all of me together in service work, and I am excited about what is possible.
I don't know yet exactly what this year will look like, but I know it will be yet another layer of balance - of the inner and the outer. Of bringing my voice to the work that I do, and sharing it. You can count on more to come.
There is something powerful about the solstice to mark times of transition. I left for Guatemala on Winter Solstice, 2009. I returned to British Columbia exactly six months later, on Summer Solstice. It is two summer solstices later, and I am again called to reflect on the transitions and what is unfolding before me.
This past year has been one of profound paradox for me. Developing myself as a professional consultant while simultaneously developing myself as a somatically based yoga teacher. Playing dressup in 'professional' heels and navigating corporate politics through the week; donning yoga pants, with my raw-vegan potluck contribution to the world of deep emotional connection on the weekends. And through the process finding my voice of authenticity in both. Finding the place where I can bring heart and connection into the corporate world, and where I can bring my professional skills into the powerful realm of yoga and connection.
As I move forward this year, I know that my work life will continue to shift into greater alignment - and with each step forward, I am able to see the incredible value of each step I've taken, perhaps most especially the difficult ones. I am grateful for all the places where I have bumped against the questions of balance, alignment, integrity, and purpose. Those questions have enabled me to be more present in those moments, and to grow from them.... and to make choices with ever greater clarity.
This week I got to play with another level of balance, as I brought my 'professional' skills into a community I care deeply about, and helped them move forward through an important piece of work - that for them is all about connection. I see what is possible when I bring all of me together in service work, and I am excited about what is possible.
I don't know yet exactly what this year will look like, but I know it will be yet another layer of balance - of the inner and the outer. Of bringing my voice to the work that I do, and sharing it. You can count on more to come.
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