So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth – Baha’u’llah
One of the best gifts that yoga has brought into my life, is a connection to and interaction with an amazing yogi community on social media. Honestly, the support, kindness, and new friendships that I’ve been blessed with have been so wonderful. Thank you all you lovely yogis on IG, you really are the best! I also thank the very lovely Cat Meffan who created the members only Facebook group at www.soulsanctuary.co.uk , this initially enabled me to connect with others all around the world. A sense of belonging within a yoga community is so strong.
There is power in unity. I think, we all feel that and want to lift each other up. I find that so inspirational, as there is so much negativity on social platforms these days.
This really transfers yoga from the mat, to off the mat. Yogis have such big hearts.
When I found yoga ten months ago, it was during the height of the COVID pandemic. I was feeling lost without regular gym workouts, I was missing moving my body and the mental strength that comes with it. Yoga and I had never found an easy, lasting relationship before this. I was looking for a way to connect with my body and have a way to get my headspace back, my time to just move and breathe.
It was just what I needed. At first I found Pilates online through www.blogilates last April and May, I spent the months working through Cassey Ho’s calendar schedules. I rolled out my mat and showed up every day. I ached and discovered muscles I didn’t know I had!
Cassey Ho got me motivated and moving my body in different ways than the resistance training I was used to at the gym. Not knowing where to start, the set schedule gave me a complete, whole body workout over each week.
I loved rolling out my mat each day, I was surprised by how hard my body worked in such a confined space! My core strength was holding up and my back felt good. I started to get curious about yoga once again.
I researched and read as much as I could about it! I tried some online YouTube classes, all with fabulous teachers, that included, www.yogawithadrienne.com , Jessica Olie on YouTube, although she now has www.jessolie.com and I still do some of her flows from her IG @jessicaolie account which are fantastic. Also www.yogabycandace through YouTube, where I found my first headstand flow/skills with Candace.
All the above were an amazing part of my journey, and still are, but I was looking for a teacher & community that I could really feel a connection with as my practice was starting to progress, I wanted continuity whilst I started to explore and deepen my practice.
Then in October I found www.catmeffanyoga on YouTube. I just loved the infectious nature of Cat’s teaching and personality, and in December I became a member of www.soulsanctuary.co.uk Cat came across so lovely, and always encourages you to share on the private Facebook group. I took a leap of faith, and after practicing and talking nonstop to my husband (a non-yogi) for six months, I connected to a whole community of lovelies who just want to talk about all things yoga! This was Bliss! For both myself and my husband.
I love interacting and chatting to the whole community and the friends I’ve made at My Soul Sanctuary. You inspired me and gave me courage to set up my Instagram page and website to blog and to document my yoga journey to 200hr YTT. Where connections with an amazing community has begun.
This caring Yogi community has no idea how much it gives. I feel it’s a privilege to be part of something so nurturing and uplifting. Let us keep caring for each other all around the world, and let it empower us to grow and shine.
If you’re part of this community and you’ve read this, then I thank you. I hope you find kindness in this corner of the internet too during your own yoga journey.
One of the greatest things you can do to help others is not to just share and give what you have, but to help them discover what they have within themselves to help themselves – Rita Zarhara
Be kind and go with the flow.
Jo x
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