“yoga isn’t an escape,

it is an approach to life..”

I came across this quote while doom-scrolling instagram earlier this week full disclosure and despite the lack of positive effect social media usually has on my life, this one actually got me thinking.. how has this practise changed how I approach the world?

I should’ve taken the hint; when I first discovered yoga the days where I felt most avoidant of myself were the days I’d go nowhere near my mat. Sitting with myself with no distraction, there to pay attention to nothing but my breath and the thoughts that arose in between, was incredibly daunting. Business was what I clutched to the tightest to keep me disconnected me from what I was truly feeling, and I had no idea I was doing it.

But as I showed up to myself, over time that is, the shifts I noticed in my mind, body, in my approach to life and relationships have showed me the depths that are possible in this practise. How patience towards oneself on the mat can show up as compassion in our relationships, how awareness of the breath can teach us to take our day just a little bit slower, how sensitivity to sensations in the body can reveal to us the smaller moments of beauty in every day life.

Yoga doesn’t have to be an escape, but an approach, an invitation, a call to a deeper, more considered way of life.

We’ll be immersing ourselves on this journey in less than one month on the beautiful Greek island of Zakynthos. If you would like to join us, you know where we’ll be.