I am SO HAPPY that I teach yoga! It just struck me – again – this morning while I was teaching how much I really really love what I do. And I am so grateful that I am in a situation where I can do it. For so long I worked in a career that I really didn’t love. I felt trapped and dreamed of doing something else but WHAT? That was always the question.

Do you know what I mean?

• You just KNOW you cannot continue to work in a job that isn’t truly you.
• But you’re not sure what “truly you” means.

For me, the situation was that I had a corporate job that fit in with what I thought was expected of me. It paid me really well and gave me the status that I thought I was supposed to have. All of my friends were from that world – we would talk about work outside of work and we had our own little corporate-speak way of communicating with each other. I lived in a big house and ate out 4-5 times a week in really nice restaurants. I shopped at expensive stores and outsourced boring tasks such as housecleaning, laundry, and washing the car.

On paper, I would think to myself, my life is fantastic. But why then did I feel bad?

I know now – I felt bad because I wasn’t living authentically.
I wasn’t living the life that I really wanted to live, that I am meant to live.
I wasn’t being the person I truly am.

The question then became: what kind of life do I want? And of course, who am I really?

au-then-tic-i-ty: the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions.

My path of self-discovery began with my yoga practice. What was at first just a physical activity (maybe YOGA will help me lose 10 pounds!) evolved into a journey of learning about my Self. I learned to quiet my mind, to look inward rather than outward for the answers to these questions.

Eating whole natural foods was and is an essential key. Who I am and what I want becomes clear when I am eating well and able to think clearly. It’s next to impossible to find your authentic self when you are constantly in a haze of sugar, caffeine, chemicals, meat, and dairy.

And best of all, the unfolding of ME is continuous as I am constantly transforming

PS there’s a beautiful almost-full moon out tonight. I hope you can see it too.