Be where your feet stand.

Happy 2023 beautiful human! Another year done and a new one to come!

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what to share with you as we kick off the new year. I’m not the biggest fan of resolution settings because then we are doing something out of failure or assumption that we are lacking something. I’m all about setting intentions that allow us to move towards something without the expectation of completion. But regardless, this is not about setting or not setting resolutions. In fact, it is the opposite, it is about being right where you are at. 

What does it mean “to be where you are at.” We talk a lot in yoga about releasing expectation and attachment, but one, that is not easy and two, that brings up different emotions. 

Often times when we try to be where we are at, there are outside forces that make us feel where we are at, is not right. I should be able to touch my toes or do an arm balance in yoga. I should be married, with a house, and kids by the time I’m 30. I should know what career I want in college and never switch it. I should want to go out to parties. I should want to hit the gym every day. I should I should I should. 

If you were to ask yourself what you wanted, then did it, and you found joy, then that “should” be what you are doing. But after we make the choice we feel the pressure of “we

should’ve” made the opposite choice and now we are no longer joyful of the choice we made in the first place. 

I want to encourage you to be present in what you are currently doing and honor the choices you have made. Sitting in the land of “should’ve” is sitting in the land of regrets. But on the flip side, if your should’ves are because you made a choice that didn’t honor your authentic wants, then still, stand in your choice and grow from that decision for next time.

We do a lot of prepping for things—school for a career, working out to lose weight, dating to find our final match, New Years' resolutions to be a better person. Instead, live in the moments of doing vs doing while living in our hope of what may come. 

Next time you step on the mat do less, be more. Be with every breath. Be with every movement. Be with every heartbeat. Maybe even try closing your eyes and doing your entire flow trusting yourself completely from within.