August 19, 2021

“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.” Pema Chodron

Three and a half years ago I finished a yoga teacher training with @zunayoga and then I came right back to my ‘normal’ life. I worked as a tour guide full-time in 2018 and 2019 and then my whole world (and y’know the whole globe) got turned upside down. These last 1.5-2 years have been big years. Punctuation marks. Exclamation points. On a personal and global level I have felt things change, seen systems change, watched human beings change entirely. I look back at the me I was in March 2020 and I feel exactly the same and also 100% different. Can anyone else relate?

Through it all? I am so infinitely grateful for yoga. For this practice that I began doing to figure out my body and in the end I’m figuring out that figuring out my body was really just a way to figure out my mind. You know, that whole ‘mind/body connection’ thing.

So? It’s officially my second summer working more as a yoga teacher and retreat leader than as a tour guide. It’s officially near the end (but not the end yet) of summer 2021 and I feel like I’ve moved and changed and learned and grown more than I could possibly quantify.

So today, I’m thinkin’ back to the beginning of this month and to this sun-soaked 7am moment in Sicily with @lauratalafer wearing a beautiful set by @julesnaturelove and how I never expected that I could find a job, a path, a life that fills my heart and soul up quite so much.

Through it all, we’re always the sky, and everything else is, in fact, always just weather. I’m really grateful that my life in this exact moment looks like hosting yoga retreats and I’m so excited for what 2022 and beyond is going to look like. That’s all!