In this moment I was getting ready for my morning practice. I’ll be honest, even as a yoga teacher I struggle to practice. Even this morning as I prepared to sit here in this most inspiring setting to begin my practice, I jumped on Insta to capture the moment first. The silliness of this need to document and share the moment made me remember my teacher @tricyamorrice saying be careful what gets in the way of getting to your practice.

So often we will come to our mats to practice and a whole big long list of obstacles will get in the way of becoming still and turning inward. Maybe you simply can’t practice without your music or your favourite bolster. Heck even the idea that we need our mat to practice is one of those blockages that gets in the way of practicing.

In writing this post, I realized how silly it was that I was instagramming before taking my time to practice. I put my phone down midway through post and settled into my practice. It made me realize yet again how the images we see on social media of our friends and family are just that images. They are carefully curated snapshots in time. They don’t tell us the full picture.

I’m not sure what my intention was this morning as I opened my phone to share this moment. Was it based in love with a hope of inspiring others to find their way to practice? Or was it ego based and full of fear… “look at me!” I don’t know for sure. What I do know is that at a certain point midway through this post something felt misaligned and inauthentic.

If you see my post this morning and it inspires you then that’s great. If it makes you feel anything less than wonderful just know that there is a story behind this image. Not everything that we see is how it appears.

I am human… my life isn’t perfect. I have intentions to practice and sometimes shit gets in the way. I love myself anyways ❤️❤️❤️

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