Walking through the Doors

“The only constant in life is change.” An accepted life statement, and it is profoundly true in yoga. In the past 12 months I have moved my home and family, my practice, endeavored on a Seva (service) path with The Abundant Yoga Project, and am now working to share more abundance with FunRaiser Yoga.

It just flows, like water through the river, or one pose to the next in a graceful vinyasa. It can be scary at times, to watch the change wash over your perspective and through your life. This makes the time on the mat ever more precious. Each day I come back to this “place” on my mat. The world moves and changes, my body and its willingness to take certain shapes changes, my thoughts on the mat can change, but my re-connection to my heart is constant. It is always there. The mat and the bendy postures are just the tools to continue to open me up when fear wants to close me down. On the brink of more change, just days into the FunRaiser Yoga idea, the doubts creep in. Yet the heart shines and says, “So what- this isn’t about anything other than sharing yoga and helping others. Stick to this and you will catch a glimpse of the next door when its time.”

I opened a Yoga Journal last May to read Seane Corn’s words about Off the Mat into the World. I walked through the door and worked on a service project to bring money to those in need in Haiti. Through the Abundant Yoga Project  this fall I met many wonderful people and taught yoga to hundreds of children in my new local community. New doors opened to teach here. The power of service is rooted in me from the Abundant Yoga/Seva experience. So I connected with some like-minded folks, and now we are looking at ways of using yoga to help our local communities. We can boost heath, connect new people to yoga, and help local organizations and businesses. The definition of yoga is union. Healthy, positive, vibrant community is the greatest expression of that union. So I walk through this door and wonder, what amazing experiences this will bring?