Summer time and the Living is Easy?!
Hello my Yogi friends,
Summertime and the living is easy… right?! The reason why there is a question mark and an explanation mark at the end of that sentence is because this is what summer sometimes feels like, right? Why, because it’s summer and WE love to make the most out of every single day but sometimes it can be draining as well if we are not placing our focus in the right direction.
This summer I am choosing to have a casual relationship with all the ‘extra’ things and focus more on truly living easy and making the most of it with my family, friends and Yoga family as well :) This past year has been extremely eye opening for me and I needed to take a moment and be honest with myself and realize that sometimes I don’t practice what I preach…. with 3 jobs, 3 young kids, a husband with 2 jobs and kids involved in sports and extra things life wasn’t being lived as easy as what I would have liked. (Don’t get me wrong- life is beautiful and we have chosen this life and we are extremely grateful, but our plates, like most people are full).
For most of you you know that our intentions for this farm property is to open an event venue that will host the yoga classes, weddings and all sorts of other awesome events but my dream and vision hasn’t come without a price tag which I have come to realize and since COVID the price tag seemed to become a little more inflated- you all know what I mean ;) So picking up some extra gigs seemed to be the best option to make this dream and vision come to fruition, but truly I felt a little too maxed out and my dream and vision started to turn into something I dreaded talking about or even thinking about because I thought we would have had 2 seasons of events at this point. This vision now seemed unattainable and too lofty in my mind until recently. I believe that we are all born to serve a purpose and live our passions and on my yoga mat one morning it came to me that I was focusing more on the lack of what I truly wanted was coming from my lack of moving in the direction towards my goal. Yes, we need the funds to make this happen, but I was focusing on that too much versus what the end goal will truly look like- I was placing my energy in the wrong direction and I was feeling it. . So what I have decided to do is get back to my why… why do I want this, why was this dream and vision planted inside of me, how can I serve, who can I serve and what is my purpose for this dream/goal/vision… now those are some good questions to ask yourself to get you moving forward and place your energy in the right direction!! :) Do I have all the answers to these questions right now? Nope! But I believe that by asking yourself better questions you will get better answers don’t you? So it is my mission this summer is to get some more concrete answers to those questions and live in more of a state of flow verses a controlled state or state of lack-in a state of flow is when things really do feel easy.
My best answers have always come to me on my mat or meditating in nature so I am hoping that this summer if you are able to pop into classes online or at the farm location you too will be able to still your mind enough to listen to your heart to give you those answers too- I promise you it happens:)
Be sure to check out the weekly class schedule located under the ‘Yoga’ menu! Cheers to an amazing summer living life easy!
From my mat to yours,
Namaste Tarah