Welcome to my blog!
I originally wanted to start a blog at the beginning of summer, but things got busy, and here we are...less than 2 weeks until I am a slave to nursing school for another eight months. However, while I was in yoga today, the topic of the class was "Change." As I wrap up my summer of living in Chicago with my boyfriend, I am becoming anxious to start the year in Cincinnati without him. Although he was in Chicago for my spring semester, it is still going to be a transition and finding a time where our schedules collide. My life for the past three months was a retail job, shopping, cooking, but mostly spending time with Sean. So my life is going from my perfect world to basically the opposite, at least that's how I was feeling before practicing yoga today. And here is why I obsess over yoga....
I learned from a 60 minute heated yoga class, in a room full of complete strangers that change is constant. Obvious, I know, but I am ignorant to what is right in front of me sometimes. It is so easy to forget simple concepts. One thing I know for sure, wherever I am--in Chicago or Cincinnati--I will have my mat to center me. Just standing in the middle of a rectangle cushion (essentially) and saying, "I am where I need to be." and "I am here." It is too easy to become comfortable with a normal routine, however, when we enter that comfort level, we tend to take for granted the voices we hear or the people we surround ourselves with. I challenge myself everyday to just be.
Yoga is more than just a form of exercise, it's a cleansing.
P.S. A big shout out to my boyfriend for helping me get this blog together and for putting up with me all summer...If you want to get to know him a little more-- he has a blog too! www.siobud.com
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