Back in the Saddle

I have totally been slacking on the blog front (seeing as my last post was from October of last year). It's only been in the last month or so, after having some time off to explore Eastern Canada, that I realized how fast and crazy I had been moving along for quite awile now. It was a wake up call to be on vacation in Nova Scotia and have a fairly quiet schedule and realize at one point...I said to myself what is that I am feeling? Oh right that's happiness! It is a fine balance somewhere in the middle and even though I had thought I was there, I was pretty far from the middle as it turns out.

So spent a week enjoying the simple pleasures of sleeping in, laughing with friends, walking, watching movies, more laughing and eating home cooked meals every day. I realized I could get used to life like this. A slower pace, less hectic and less noise. It's only after having come home to Vancouver that I noticed (and Bernard too) how noisy it is all of the time being in the city. I love Vancouver but - it's time for a change.

Part of me coming home and other than being a little overwhelmed with the city at first, realizing and experiencing how much I need time to be a student of yoga just as much as I need to teach yoga as well. It's not as much of a need to teach yoga exactly, it's just that I really enjoy it, and it makes me feel good, pretty simple. But my teaching schedule has really been scaled back, on purpose by me, and it's been so absolutely lovely. Don't get me wrong, like I said, I love, love, love teaching yoga and won't be giving it up anytime soon. But after less classes to teach, means more time for me and more time for me to actually go to a yoga class on my own and be the student. And oh how lovely it is to be a student, I have missed making the time for it! I got myself to 3 classes last week and I will be hitting atleast 2 this week as well. It's so great! Seems incredibly silly that I hadn't been making a point of making sure that this doesn't get missed.

It does feel nice to have a little more perspective, have a little more time to enjoy life and to have a goal now. Living in Vancouver is fantastic in so many ways, but the cost of living is pretty insane and it's quite challenging to get ahead financially - so making a move East is sounding so very inviting. It will take some planning, some research, some work, I know this...but ultimately Nova Scotia is calling my name. Having a new start and having myself been re-acquainted with my love of yoga has been so fabulous, feels like my words are not doing my feelings justice here. Anyways going to make a concerted effort to make another go of my blogging here. Yoga and non-yoga related. But yoga is such a big part of my life and it continually brings me home (in more ways than one) that how could I now talk about it here?

Sara


"So I learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself" - Stephen Spender