moon class november - rest, recover and heal

There is a lot going on in the world right now — I’m sure I don’t need to tell this.

I know for me, and a lot my students I’ve been connecting with over the past few weeks, are feeling a deep sense of heaviness, fear, saddness. The future seems uncertain and unknown, and it can be difficult to sit with this. 

Sometimes as a practitioner, and a teacher, I feel a pressure to stay hopeful and optimistic. To remind myself and others, that it will all work out in the end — and it will, but at some point, it will all fall apart again — and this is just life. 

This is really the heart of spiritual teachings — understand that sometimes life will be beautiful, and other times, it will be terrible. 

Our practice is not about trying to change this, to make everything okay all of the time. It’s about learning how to surrender into this, rather than fight and struggle against it. 

An important part of our practice is learning how to take care of ourselves. Being able to recognise moments that we feel low and tired, and instead of habitually trying to push through, making time to rest, recover and heal.