I once attended a training course with a teacher I admired who said ‘Yoga teachers these days are running themselves ragged, it is completely out of line of what real yoga is’
 
My first reaction was anger. Being a Yoga teacher IS a real job and my full-time job, some of us don’t have the luxury of not working hard. I was proud of the business I had worked so hard to create. 
 
Fast forward years later, I realized I was angry at this because it was true. Secretly I was completely exhausted! I am the main income earner in my family and after having my little boy I knew things needed to change. I have always been good at holding things together on the outside in terms of teaching but on the inside and at home I felt drained. My body was full of aches and pains, my hair was falling out and my personal relationships were suffering. I was pouring from an empty cup for too long.
 
I still needed and wanted success in my yoga business and wanted to be an amazing Mum, but it was costing me my wellbeing. I felt like I didn’t even have time to think!


 

I grew up in the generation of women where we were told “you can have it all” but having it all is not the same as quite literally doing it all. Through my years of experience teaching yoga to busy working women, I saw them juggling full time jobs and career goals with family life with barely a moment's breath. Taking care of themselves is often last on the list. 
 
Ginger Rogers said “I do everything a man does only backwards and high heels” I used to love this quote. But now I see this quote resembling silently working harder than anyone else and being everything to everyone. 
 
I realised that doing everything myself ‘backwards and in high heels’ wasn’t important to me or something to be proud of. I would rather live a life of ease, flow and abundance. 
 
So, I worked on my mindset and looked deeply into my personal yoga practices. I reconsidered what was truly helpful and supportive to me in my life. I restructured my business to one that allowed me to find the balance I needed in life. Through this process I discovered that when I love and care for myself first, this magically reflects in my relationships, life choices and goals. Ease and abundance comes when we fill our own pots and take care of own needs, even when it seems there is no time! This in itself created transformation in my life.