Svadhyaya is one of my favorite niyamas!! I'm a big thinker and love journaling like you. My memoir was a practice in svadhyaya and it's the first word in my book. I published it hoping that my svadhyaya practice can help others with theirs. As I learned tonight, we have so much in common!! I look forward to going back and reading the rest of your posts in this series. Thanks for sharing.
Yes! You should definitely do that.. they are brilliant.. and I was literally just thinking.. I wish I could have all of these in one easy to read place! 📚 😁
I love everything about this post. Maybe it's a Gen X yogi thing.... but I feel like in my 50's, as my children get old enough that I have full body autonomy back and I sit at this intersection of my life, I am recovering from the old programming and working towards who and how I want to be. I often say that I am a recovering co-dependent and formally in denial perfectionist. Thank you for presenting this journey through the supported lens of yoga.
Thanks so much Corie! I think as GenX we're all recovering from something as we reclaim our lives. Our childhoods were something to survive and we did it the best we could, no matter how unskillful. What matters is that we're dealing with our stuff so we can feel better, do better, and have better relationships without kids than our parents had with us. That's my two cents. I appreciate yours!
Svadhyaya is one of my favorite niyamas!! I'm a big thinker and love journaling like you. My memoir was a practice in svadhyaya and it's the first word in my book. I published it hoping that my svadhyaya practice can help others with theirs. As I learned tonight, we have so much in common!! I look forward to going back and reading the rest of your posts in this series. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Katie! I would love to hear your thoughts. I eventually want to put these essays into some sort of book. Something for the next 6 months...
Yes! You should definitely do that.. they are brilliant.. and I was literally just thinking.. I wish I could have all of these in one easy to read place! 📚 😁
Thanks for the support, Eva! I hope by the end of the year to have it done! 🤞
Ahh that's a great idea!
I love everything about this post. Maybe it's a Gen X yogi thing.... but I feel like in my 50's, as my children get old enough that I have full body autonomy back and I sit at this intersection of my life, I am recovering from the old programming and working towards who and how I want to be. I often say that I am a recovering co-dependent and formally in denial perfectionist. Thank you for presenting this journey through the supported lens of yoga.
Thanks so much Corie! I think as GenX we're all recovering from something as we reclaim our lives. Our childhoods were something to survive and we did it the best we could, no matter how unskillful. What matters is that we're dealing with our stuff so we can feel better, do better, and have better relationships without kids than our parents had with us. That's my two cents. I appreciate yours!
Your two cents is gold.
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