the worst yoga class i ever taught...

Y’all ever have a day where everything that could go wrong, does?

Welcome to my Saturday.

I was teaching yoga at my friend’s creative coworking space and was SUPER hype because it was my first official class there. *incomes Murphy’s law*

I wake up on time, start moving around, meditate, day is going wonderful!

Then I start having a good conversation about some business stuff, but it’s okay because I have buffer time to arrive prior to my class.

I push it to the edge of my buffer time, and then on the way to leave realize that I in fact cannot. The garage requires a clicker to leave and said clicker is currently winning hide-and-seek’s first place award.

*clicker gets found in my car, praise the lord!*

As I start driving to the space, I realize that traffic has now increased and I am now scheduled to be 5 minutes late… then 10 🥴

Not to say I was speeding, but not to deny that I wasn’t, I arrive at 7 minutes behind schedule.

I make the decision in my car to release all the frenetic energy, have some space and grace for myself and just show up fully, wholly, in the moment. I thank everyone waiting for their patience and proceed inside.

Then, there’s no dongle to connect my phone, even though I confirmed before there would be aaaand I forgot my speaker.

One of the ladies is already connected to the system and says I can just use her phone - perfect!

I start, as we flow through a few poses, a CVS commercial comes on 🥴, then Home Depot 🥴, then another one. I start using my phone on loud, and my phone at 68% dies.

I have to sit back and laugh at myself at this point. Instead of shutting down and being overwhelmed, feeling like I don’t have anything to give, I use this as a lesson:

You can’t control what’s happening around you. You can’t control what happens to you. You only get to decide how you will respond and react. You get to choose happiness or joy in those moments, or not, but at the end of the day that is our power. What will you choose? How will you respond?

When life isn’t manifesting how you thought it would, when things aren’t turning out how you think they should, how will you show you up?

Everything is unfolding exactly as it should, it’s our perspective of said situation and the stories we are telling ourselves that f it up.

After class knowing I did everything I could, I still kind of wanted to crawl under a rock, but I was so proud that I showed up and let the yoga and lessons flow through me. One of the women in the class broke down and cried sharing her transformation process and that she was so grateful for the space and class, that it was “wonderful” actually…

If I had allowed myself to be overcome by insecurities and getting caught up in things not being how I wanted them I could have missed this opportunity to create and hold space for her… for them… for myself.

So, no matter what happens today, show up for yourself. Show up for your purpose. Do your best and allow space and grace for yourself whenever that doesn’t look quite how you pictured.