SEE and BE with it all

Hi Everyone,

August is here and with the heat also comes the looming end of summer. A week from today I head north to North Carolina to drop my daughter off at college for her freshman year. Just typing these words makes me choke up a bit.

As many of you know, I used to live in Florida and moved to Irvington when my daughter (the same one who is heading to college) was just 4 years old and my son (who at this moment is at his high school orientation week) was just a tiny baby.

It is a powerful exercise in perspective to come back to a place after so long. I notice not only the changes in the area but the powerful changes in myself. It is not often in this life that we get the chance to come back to a place and notice how much we have grown.  I find myself back here with years of wisdom and the gratitude that comes with it. I feel like quite a different person and a different teacher. I really started my teaching journey here in South Florida 17 years ago and learning and growing in my teaching of mindfulness and yoga has been an incredible gift that I am excited to continue back here again both through teaching yoga and through KLARITY Mindsette.  

As we all know, change is the one true constant but it doesn’t mean that it is not difficult. Transition has been the theme for my family this summer- new schools, new house, new state, new chapters. And with the flood of changes for me comes the periodic feeling of overwhelm. I have been depending on my practice to help me move through those feelings. That is truly the only option, letting them flow through.  Jack Kornfield asks this powerful question “How do we carry the ocean of tears and the unbearable beauty of life that we love so much?”  I have been answering that question for myself by allowing myself to SEE and BE with it all; to see and feel fully in the moment and then to allow myself to be with it– to meet it with compassion, not judgment. So, if you are feeling overwhelmed, sit for a few moments so you can SEE and feel what is happening and then allow yourself to fully BE with it. 

I posted a brief video on my  instagram @allisonwagyoga with a short SEE & BE meditation if you want to check it out. And, I have also begun posting DAILY on my KLARITY Mindsette Instagram @klaritymindsette. Please follow me there!