Unpeeling the Onion
After 30 years in dentistry, 2 failed marriages and 4 children my journey through life could be described as a bit of a rollercoaster. The ups, the downs – the not knowing what’s coming next. One of those that looks great from the outside – nice house, nice car – but on the inside and along the way I was lost.
So when I left the profession over 5 years ago I began – probably unconsciously to be fair, the long journey back to me.
The Journey
I enrolled in a 2 year Yoga teacher training course. Not a style which many people seemed to see me fitting in (I’m physically strong, mobile and flexible) – but a restorative style. Slow, deep – and with a lot of inner work as part of the journey. When I went on one of their ‘discovery days’ I came away knowing that it was exactly what I needed.
The 2 year journey was only part of the process. Along the way I watched every other student on the course travel their own path, uncover a glow inside of them: and I hoped the same was apparent in me. For me the journey continued. I moved 200 miles up the country to the place I was brought up and built a new life. A new start – a chance to unpeel some of the layers I’d placed around myself.
So many lessons
Every so often I’d come across a teaching, a course, a phrase, a word – that would spark a light and make me face something inside which I’d been hiding from. Often that spark would be within my own yoga practice or even one of the phrases that had come to me in one of my own lessons. Sometimes it would be completely random – something the TV or maybe someone said in passing. There are lessons and reminders everywhere.
I’m hoping to return to my inner self – the person I was born to be, the person who got buried under the piles of rubbish that life threw. Recently not just unpeeling layers of the onion, it feels like it’s being chopped away in chunks. Life is, indeed, a journey.
Inner Strength Yoga
Inner Strength Yoga is more than just a name – it represents my personal journey back to health on all levels.