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Finding a Space

17/8/2014

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Finding a suitable space to teach yoga in a new city is quite a challenge and I feel really blessed to have found a hall to rent in our suburb Buddina, in fact its just down the street in the Kawana Guide hall. For over 10 years I had the privilege of being a student and teacher at Darwin Yoga Space, an amazing place and wonderfully rich yoga community so starting something here in a new place where i have just one good friend and a few family members was pretty daunting.
The whole process of starting anew gave me pause for reflection on lots of things but in particular I started thinking about space and what was the bare minimum I needed to start classes and begin to teach.  So I have a hall now how to make it a yoga space.... I started with sweeping the floor a simple task but one that puts me in the space and has always been part of preparing the room and so preparing myself to teach. I hadn't really thought about that until I picked up the broom in Kawana and it transformed me back to Darwin Yoga Space. How many times I swept the floor there and marvelled at the space - the sense of it, the residual energy of everything and everyone that has gone before.
There was a comfort in the routine almost a sense of coming home I'm still connected to that - that space its my heart .

I realised all i needed here to begin again and create a new space is to open my heart and welcome the students. They say that the teacher holds the space for the students and in a sense that's true but its the students that bring their energy to the space, who create the community, who practice the yoga and really its the yoga itself - that union of body/ mind/ spirit that creates the space. Whether alone or together any practice of yoga creates a yoga space.

I love being in nature whether its ocean, forest or desert the external space deeply affects my internal space it resonates, supports and soothes me. There is a deeply sacred space within us all we just need to find a way to tap into that space to open and expand it and to be in touch with it. I feel blessed to know that being in nature and practicing yoga does that for me and when things aren't going too well I can find the support and nourishment I need there. I encourage you to spend time reflecting on your space - what works for you, what soothes and nourishes you and try to bring that more and more into your daily life.


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