The last couple of days of 2019
and I'm willing and able to slow down to take inventory on the year. Before I'm ready to charge ahead to receive what awaits me in the new year, and truly, I can't wait!, I want to acknowledge this year. Not that 2019 was a good year or a bad one, it was in fact a year of growth. I want to consider every year in this light. What else have I learned? What have I learned that allows me to know and finally let go of the things that only weighs me down and keeps me from living my best life? What are my aspirations, dreams and hopes and do my thoughts and actions line up to meet them? What habits and behaviors have I cultivated that I will continue to build and what habits do I drop? Perhaps even more importantly, I want to ask myself for what am I grateful? If I can live gratefully, my heart softens and is open. I can not only forgive others, but I can forgive myself for falling short and missing marks, because gratitude is the best foundation for new beginnings and where I want to start the new year.
Thank you 2019 for graduating my youngest child from high school and allowing me the privilege to see all three of my children through their growing up and school years as a full time mom. I had the very best time! I am discovering that I can still have the very best time as they continue to grow up out of the nest and experience abundant blessings when they are away and when they return to visit. God is still at work and my kids still and always will want their mom. Praise. After honing my yoga teaching skills for over two years, I am now teaching at my own studio space. Yoga on Willow opened in October and I am privileged to be building my community there. I appreciate all of you who have supported me in this journey and am grateful to share the goodness I've discovered through my own yoga journey 18 years strong.
I hope you will help me grow yoga on willow in 2020. I want to offer classes and times that make the most sense. Please look for some changes next month. Invite your friends to come to class. Please give me feedback on what works for you and what doesn't. I have ideas on what I'd like to teach you, but I welcome hearing from you what it is you want and need. Some of you take a yoga class once a week. Some of you only take a class from me once a month. Our bodies and minds learn with repetition. New habits, bio-mechanical patterns, better health and wellness comes by way of what we do more of. If I want to experience life changes off the mat, I need to spend more time on it.
It takes a special village to create something special at yoga on willow. Will you help me create a safe, supportive, encouraging yoga studio community? I also think yoga should be fun.
Grateful for the lessons; they always come with blessin's. Thank you 2019 for new knowledge and wisdom. Bring on 2020!
Happy New Year!
Jill