Give your "hard" a voice

Happy April to you and yours!

Thank you, thank you to everyone who is hanging on and hanging in with us during this wild ride! Seeing your faces here every day and your dedication to your practice, your own self-care, your fitness goals, and to this community inspires us to keep moving onward and upward every single day.

As we sit down to write this month, despite perfect spring temperatures and gorgeous sunny skies, our hearts are heavy and burdened for those around us. A friend suddenly lost her new husband, people are in physical pain and do not have answers, a family member is coping with unhealed trauma in ways that hurt those closest to him, several of our students, teachers and their spouses have recently lost their jobs, thousands of people are being pulled from the rubble of an earthquake in an already impoverished country, a friend’s husband recently walked out and filed for divorce, our father has spinal fluid collecting around his brain that impairs his mobility and cognition and requires surgery, fellow mother’s and father’s hearts are breaking for their teenagers and adult children, and the list goes on…

We have seen people come into our studio and just lie down on their mat and do nothing but cry the entire class. We have done it before too. Life is hard no matter what zip code you live in, work in or practice yoga in. Thank you, Jesus, that we are not alone in the hard. We have Him – and we have this community full of people just like us – who are brave enough to keep walking through our door when their whole word feels like it is falling apart.

We do not know everything that brings you here when you come or what awaits each of you when you leave. We do know that when you are here you can have an entire hour (or more) of needed safety, healthy dissociation, and a temporary salve from the messy of life. When you finally give your hard a voice and you make a choice to take care of yourself, it changes YOU even if your circumstances do not immediately change.

If you feel like reaching out, we are here. Your story matters to us and your hard matters to us. More than poses and pranayama, may our space be the place that you discover your hard and messy is allowed, acknowledged, accepted and dare we say it – normal.

Big hugs from both of us,

Jason & Rachel