Thursday, May 3, 2012

Pacing


Again I confront my astounding ability to pace.  Back and forth, back and forth. So many vantage points, and yet I still can’t see the whole picture.  Maybe that is because I am looking around, instead of within.  As a yogi I know that what I need to see most, lies within.

In the last few months (has it already been three?) since information surfaced that John Friend, the founder of Anusara yoga, the style of yoga that I practice and am trained to teach, had acted in ways that went far beyond the boundaries of my personal values and ethics, I have been pacing.  I am now prepared to stop and be still.  I have used the fullness of my academic and personal life as a way to deflect the necessary.  I need to be with this. 

Strangely, and somewhat expectedly, since in my 30’s I have begun to know my ways-and catch them-so much better, I realize as I write this that I already know what I need to know.  The truth of my heart is clear to me.  Now, it is making decisions in alignment with that knowing, and going through the process of change, and hopefully transformation.

More to come, very soon, as I bring what I see on the inside out.