Here we are approaching the end of another year and what a year it has been!
I would like to thank each and every one of you who have attended my online and in person Yoga classes this year. I would like to extend my gratitude to each and every one of you who have experienced Craniosacral Therapy, Angelic Reiki and Relaxation Massage as part of your healing and wellbeing journey. I value you and appreciate your support. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 🙏
I’ve taught Yoga classes from Waimangaroa, Clarkville, Rangiora, Mapua and Pitt Island! This online teaching is a wonderful way to connect over distance but the internet is unfortunately not always so reliable. I thank you for your patience, acceptance and flow with what arose in the domain of online teaching this past year. It has been a joy to share Yoga philosophy in some of my classes. Small bite size pieces of information that hopefully are allowing you to deepen your Yoga practice and embody the richness of this practice. Through sustained and aware practice, we have the opportunity to abide in our true nature, in this ground of being awareness, and to engage in our lives from this open, heart inspired space.
This year has been interesting for me with a new flow of coming and going. Yet in amongst this constantly changing environment I have discovered and connected to this part of myself that feels at home wherever I am. This year has involved deep inner child healing and shadow work. Time spent comforting, validating and unconditionally loving my inner child. She is quite needy, which brings a smile to my face – what little girl isn’t – but also because it has taken a bit to embrace this needy part of me. Being a strong, determined, independent, focused individual there hasn’t been much space for neediness in my life. Or so I thought… this is something I can now meet with love and kindness. Time spent becoming aware of shadow parts of myself, those parts that have been hidden. It has taken courage to understand, accept and embrace jealousy, fear, envy, guilt, anger and resentment as they have arisen, time and time again this year, until I fully welcomed them in and owned them.
Through CST and SomatoEmotional Release healing, I have also discovered that “I am fragile”. I am strong – absolutely – this is my default way of being and has served me well, in encouraging me to grow and expand, but I must admit not always in the kindest way. When I trusted myself to see this part of myself, to connect to my fragility and enable the old stuck energy to release out of my body, it literally lit me up from the inside and created lightness and space within. It wasn’t easy to let go, to embrace my vulnerability, to release uncontrolled emotions, but allowing this understanding to surface has been a true gift. This new awareness has empowered me to let people in closer, to connect more freely, it has created this beautiful inner light and opened my heart that much more.
It can be difficult diving deep into stored emotions in the body tissues but it is so worth it! My life is becoming richer, fulfilling and full of love as I integrate these parts of myself and become whole once again. As I be in, and allow my true nature to shine through, this world feels magical and full of wonder, possibility and endless love. It is a blessing to be alive on Earth at this time.
I wish you a joyful time over the Festive Season. Embrace your experience as it arises.
Be present in the moment, accept and enjoy.
Me Rongo,
Melissa
xx