17/06/2026
Do you know what?
I admire beyond words anybody out there striving every single day to be the break in the chain.
To be the person in their family, their community, their friendship group to be the changemaker.
Who see the hardships in the world, and yes, in themselves, and rather than sitting on their hands and letting ālife take its courseāā¦ they put in the graft to see their shadows, to dance with all of life, so that perhaps, one day, they can meet themselves wit a greater compassion than they were taught to have.
And who then strive to build a life that ripples all of that love, all of that awareness, all of that compassion back out into the world. To try their best to help the world feel just a little less harsh for those around them, too.
I look at my friends who are yoga teachers, who are scraping pennies together to do the work they love (because letās face it, weāre not out here doing it for the money š
), but who canāt imagine a life not sharing these teachings and who keep. on. showing. up. In their own practice. In their own meeting of shadow. In their own practice of complete compassionā¦ while also showing up every day for their students and their community.
Youāre true superheroes and I see you. I know it can be really hard sometimesā¦ these practices arenāt for the weak-hearted! They rip us open and demand we dissolve ourselves into nothingness over, and over, and over again. We choose to walk ourselves into the ring of fire with trust in the unseen, the unknown, the un-manifest often even more than the already here, already manifest, already solid.
If this is you and youāre reading this as the chain-breakerā¦ the world needs more of you and your heart.
And to any yoga teachers out there pouring your soul into something that feels often quite limiting financially, but so, so full spiritually. Keep doing what youāre doing, but also do whatever you need to do to make sure youāre supported at that root layer. Thereās a reason the Muladhara Chakra is the base energy centre. Your feeling of inner safety and stability is so important - everything else stems from that place. The world weāre teaching in here (in the West) is very different to the world yoga existed in traditionally in India. Itās ok to sometimes not quite know how to navigate itā¦ or to feel guilty having to charge for something where traditionally you would be supported energetically in very, very different ways.
Take a breath, get some sunlight into your eyes, feel some earth under your toes, come back to your own Yoga, and remind yourself that what youāre doing is brave in a world that demands otherwise of us. Iāll be doing the same today.
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