roots

Roots

trauma

Trauma

addiction

Addiction

forgiveness

Forgiveness

confidence

Confidence

awakening

Awakening

service

Service

chaos

Chaos

fear

Fear

expectations

Expectations

truth

Truth

love-and-balance

Love and Balance

women-and-peace

Women and Peace

Expecting something to turn out the way you want it to and then being let down when it doesn’t is such a vicious and useless cycle. This is why I don’t like New Year’s resolutions, or even setting an intention in class. Practice and detach. Do the best you can and let go. The expectations that we set for ourselves can be the worst. There’s a yoga sutra—Abhyasa vairagyabhyam tat nirodhah—that’s translated “Practice diligently and let go of the results.” Realizing that there are no answers, Rilke wrote this: “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions them...