(Down Under Yoga, January 2018)
[button link=”https://www.downunderyoga.com/blog-voices/2018/01/01/path-of-a-teacher-rachel-meyer” color=”#AAAAAA” size=”2″ style=”1″ dark=”1″ radius=”auto” target=”self”]Read More[/button]Most of us don’t come to the mat because life is peachy. We’re drawn to yoga because of an ache in our hearts or our bones, or a mind that won’t quite stop racing. We come and just practice staying; staying and not reacting, staying and realizing the chaos is not us, staying and realizing we are clear blue sky.(As Pema Chodron says: Everything else is just the weather.)
It was suffering that brought me to the mat and kept me there, too.
It’s 2002. I am 23, standing at a payphone on the beach in Malaga, Spain when I get the call that will change my life forever.