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I came into 2020 with this urge to make some further changes to my lifestyle and one of them was beginning a yoga practice. I did not know where that urge came from, there was no rational explanation but given how my life had been going in 2019, I no longer bothered to question what was rational or what was not anymore.
So January 2020, there was this itch. I could not find a teacher so I let it rest. (I live on a tiny island in the Caribbean Sea where yoga is not a ‘thing’). But the urge remained as if my intuition was telling me that I was going to need this sometime in the future. And, like many persons, I follow my intuition only sometimes, and the rest times I follow my head. I did not try very hard to find an instructor.
From 2019 into 2020, I had begun seeing many things falling away from me; coffee for one, a beverage that for the past 5 years or more had been my mainstay, along with other extremely delicious indulgences. I reached the point where I felt I had no choice; I just listened to my body and obeyed. And surprising, the letting go was not painful. Meditation and seeking became my main activities.
And then March 2020 arrived with its usual bluster and braggadociousness but this time with an extra surprise.
The atmosphere and energy changed. Persons like myself who are empathetic began to feel the energies of persons around, the anxiousness, the uncertainty, and the fear. As much as I tried, for as long as possible to avoid connecting with these energies, I could not maintain it and like a sponge, I began to absorb it all. I reach the point where I was feeling all the symptoms of the collective and my physical body reacted negatively. I knew I had to do something to protect myself or end up sickening myself.
And then, a soft still voice inside of me said, ‘yoga’.
I answered back, ‘yoga?’
It said, ‘yoga’
I grabbed a towel, turned on YouTube, and found an online course for beginners. I fought my way through the twenty-minute session and had the best night's sleep afterward.
Yoga.
