08/31/2026
✨👇🏻I have permission to share…
A few weeks ago I had a very vulnerable conversation after class with one of our yogis. She shared with me that she lives in a state of constant anxiety worried about her life slipping away from her. She said ‘I’m not ready for it to be the school year again. I needed to lose more weight first, I needed to have my house in order, I didn’t have the time I needed to rest. I feel like I’m always behind waiting for when things get easier that I will finally be ok. I want to enjoy this one life I have and be where I can actually be present and enjoy the things in my life!”
I feel like this conversation rings so true for so many of us that I asked her if I could share it.
Yoga gives us a different perspective here.
There is a principle in yoga philosophy called asteya. Literally translated it means non stealing but its application is far more compassionate.
It asks us to witness our thoughts and behaviors. See where we are stealing energy from ourselves.
The truth is - we can steal the experience of today by continually living in - “WHEN, LATER, NEXT SEASON, WHEN THINGS SETTLE DOWN…”
We wait for things to be ‘right, ok, perfect’ and these are not places they are states of your nervous system. You are not in the state of your health/nervous system where you CAN enjoy things. These are facts not feelings.
Think of this constant stress like a lingering cough from an illness. It is the behavioral outcome of too much. It’s annoying and it can get you down.
Too much stress, too many demands, not enough time…these are facts not things to have judgement about.
Your body and brain need support and it’s your nervous system begging for care that’s driving these patterns.
In yoga we invite kindness and compassion when we feel like this and we move to solutions.
✨When you tend to your nervous system you tend to your life’s capacity and joy.✨
☝🏻read that again - this is what we practice at CENTRE.
This is the practice of yoga 💕✨
I invite you to join us 💕 you won’t believe how you will begin to feel!
To close - the conversation ended with her sharing how when she comes to yoga it’s the only time she feels better all week! The goal is now for that feeling to follow her out of the studio and back into her life more and more.
This comes naturally when you start to heal your nervous system 💕✨💪🏻