My journey as a yoga teacher began a little over a year ago, back in August of 2018. This journey began shortly after my life fell into shambles. I was seriously injured, I lost my dream dance contract, my relationship of almost 6 years ended in tragic fashion, and to top it all off my grandmother passed away. 2018 seemed like lost, after lost. My knee surgery was lowest point of the year, but also the turning point. I decided that as soon as I was well enough to walk, I would start yoga teacher training (YTT) and I did.

When I began I knew I would dive deep into what yoga is and what it meant to do and teach yoga, however I never expected the emotional and healing journey that was so closely related to it. As I studied the physical practice, terms, philosophy, and so much more throughout the days, I also found myself crying, journaling, expressing, and releasing all that 2018 had thrown at me. When I graduated YTT I felt like a new person! I had a new outlook on life, new hopes, dreams, and even new people in my life! I thought that was it; everything is going to be perfect and peachy, my healing work is done. Well let me tell you how wrong I was, because I was 100% WRONG! I had just scratched the surface of what it meant to "heal". Of course I was feeling better but there was still this inner turmoil and sadness that filled the depth of my heart.

Shortly after I graduated, 2019 was here and I was so ready! I made 2019 my year about bliss! Everything I was going to do and create would be focused on following my bliss. Towards the beginning of the year, I began teaching at local gyms and studios. I was so excited and nervous to able to share this beautiful practice with anyone and everyone that would let me teach them. It started slow but before I knew it I was teaching all over town. Each class I taught felt better more comfortable that soon I just relied on my intuition to teach. However outside of class I spent a majority of my time alone. I found myself sitting with my feelings, diving deep and really unpacking all that happened the year before. This is when the real healing work began.

At this point I was ready to release old habits and self- sabotaging thoughts. I really started to notice the words and thoughts I would put out into the universe. I started becoming more mindful of myself and my surrounding and over all how I went about being in the world and my life. At this point things really started to change. I felt no need to hold on to the anger, sadness, and guilt that 2018 brought me but really started to see it as the stuff that had to happen to create the beautiful life I was now living. After time, I realized how unhappy I was with my old life and how I was so deeply rooted and convinced that it supposed to be that way, that it was just how life was supposed to be lived. When everything crumbled down it was a blessing in a great disguise I needed to go through that to wake up to realize that I wasn't living life, it was living me.

I worked through that healing daily. Each day brought me more discovery, more joy, and more freedom. I also started the notice that healing work in never really "done". There are always things that are going to hurt and things for us to learn and grow from. Now I have a better mindset to deal with these times and learn from each and every experience. All of us go through hard times and it's all really about how we pick ourselves up from those times. I could of easily become so bitter about everything that happen to me but I decided to let it go and make myself better; which in turn I now have this absolutely BEAUTIFUL and MEANINGFUL life that I am grateful for everyday.

I now realized a year since my YTT that this year of healing has been so much more than following my bliss and finding what makes my heart happy, it is all about TRUST. As I flip through all the journal entries from 2019 I noticed a pattern that everything comes down to trusting the process. Trusting that your exactly where your supposed to be, that everything that is happening right now is a piece of the larger picture, that there are truly no coincidences because everything comes with a plan and divine timing. As much as I would like to say my 2019 was all about bliss, it is more about trust. Right now I find myself in this place of great joy and balance and I know that trust has brought me here. Right now I have a lot of ideas, hopes, and dreams for the future and I trust that I will get there, that whatever is meant for me will be. Everything comes back to trust.

I am here trusting this process and sharing along the way. This is the first many blog posts that will contain heartfelt sharing about all things yoga and life. I hope you will join me on this journey! Feel free to press the subscribe button to get updates! I thank you in advance for your time and support.

With love and light,

Bliss Yogi