2020 Vision

As I was graduating from my teacher training course in the summer of 2019, someone asked me what I wanted to do with my qualification. My answer: there's real scope for doing online yoga teaching, there's not a lot of that about just now!

Six month's later and COVID-19 changed everything, not just for yoga teachers. 2020 had brought much suffering, or in yogic/ Buddhist terms "dhukha". We all avoid suffering at any cost. However as a Buddhist monk once said to me years ago - who ever said we weren't supposed to suffer in this life?

Perhaps that's the lesson of this year. We learn and grow through our personal and collective challenges. Rather than focusing on the traumas of this year, we should be grateful for what we have and for the lessons we have been given.

I'm certainly not where I thought I'd be at the end of this year, but where I am isn't bad. I'm fortunate (so far) that nobody in my family has fallen victim to the virus. I'm practicing my yoga regularly, albeit in a different way and I'm teaching online yoga, again in a different way than I imagined 18 months ago.

As we move into 2021 we're all looking for answers. Yoga gives us clarity and helps us be in the present moment, rather than worry about what is going to happen in the future. All we can do is take things a step at a time, and look forward to a time when life can get back to some semblance of normality.

Wishing you a peaceful and safe 2021.

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