Recognize gifts that are in our lives… not just physical, but talents, energies, and experiences that make our spirit shine. Experiences that teach us compassion. People that teach us about love and trust. Events that seem so horrible when they happen, but they lead to an event so amazing you’re filled with gratitude for being in that moment, but, without the first event the second would not have happened. Or if it did happen, the heart of the sweetness of what is that moment would never have been so intense.

 
We all have paths that we walk, all have our good, and (what we inside consider) bad. But without the bad there would be no good, without down, there would be no up, without bitter… no sweet. It would all just be uneventful and the same. Its taken years of searching and finding who I am, years of physical pain from endometriosis and scoliosis, emotional pain from not following my inner guidance and not walking the path that was true to my spirit, to finally find yoga. I realized very quickly that yoga was going to become a huge part of my healing and I became a Yoga Instructor and Reiki practitioner so I could in turn pass those healing benefits on to my students, family, friends, my teachers and loved ones…… thinking about it…. they are all one in the same. Teaching has been a true gift in my life. As I am teaching, I learn so much from each individual. All of these experiences, teaching me as I transition every moment into who I will eventually become, because, I am a work in progress.

 
I am truly blessed to be living fully in this life, walking through it in awareness and gratitude for all its gifts. My beautiful kids, my amazing and loving partner in life, a mom that is so supportive, siblings that I wouldn’t trade for anything…. even if I could, and friends that are truly beautiful.

If my life starts to feel stressed and my thoughts clouded and down, I step on to the mat and through the practice of yoga (it is truly a ‘practice’) I can center, refocus, regroup and regain clarity of what truly matters in my life and what I really want to be doing. I love being a mother, a partner, daughter, sister, friend, teacher, and healer. It is who I am; it is the path I walk. A path that is so clear that I wonder sometimes what took me so long to get here, loving every moment.

~ In love and light ~

~Tricia~