Romance is a fuel for life
I was never meant to have a yoga studio, of any kind.
Between the years of 2015 to 2021. I spent the majority of my days inside the walls of yoga studios, practicing, studying, teaching and working deep in the bones of three seperate studios behind the scenes.
This was a precious time for me. I was learning and stretching beyond the edges of myself every single day. As a teacher, as a student of yoga and yogic philosophy, understanding the back end of membership based, yogic business and building a presence on social media.
I loved it but I had decided very firmly: I will never own a yoga studio.
The Daily Rest Studio was created almost by accident. It was never intended to be an online yoga studio. It was to be a space to house yoga practices and twice monthly live Rest workshops for participants of my courses and trainings. It was always about education and community, first.
It’s always been a space of support. One of the pillars behind The Daily Rest Studio is Doing Hard Things, Gently. This often that looks like doing things that are slightly against the grain. This often looks like doing something others around you don’t understand. This often looks like letting something go and not knowing what comes next.
In 2022 I left a relationship that looked really great on paper. At the time everyone I knew was in a long-term relationship. In that relationship, I had felt, for a moment, as if I were finally normal, finally on time, finally had life figured out.
When I left that relationship, I felt as if I was grieving living a normal life. As if I were divorcing normality, the expected path. It seems strange to think about it now, but back then it felt so terrifying, so immense, so wrong. It was the work of The Daily Rest that I’ve practised and taught and guided people through for so many years that became the pillar I lent upon, that carried me though it all.
This is the essence of TDR. It’s about it’s about tools and support to live the life you actually want to live. The yogic and rest practices are not so we can become the worlds greatest yogi, but to give us the strength and capacity to actually live it, and embody it all.
When I left that relationship, I committed to being very single and to spending time on my own, even though I felt as if I was being shouted at from every angle that I didn’t have time (whatever that means). I decided to study myself deeply and honestly, uncomfortably so, and look back at all my romantic relationships and experiences, specifically my part in it all, while reading as many books on the topic as I could get my hands on. At times it felt physically painful, but I’m incredible grateful I stuck with it.
Tonight, we have a very highly requested Relationships and Dating workshop in the studio. As always, this is not a prescriptive workshop. I’m going to share what I’ve learnt through the years from human design, yogic traditions, romancing and dating myself, learning to receive and spending over a year very single, then watching my experience with dating transform completely (and I’ll certainly be sharing a few tiny gems from growing up with a mother who is a couples therapist, too). As always, there will be space for questions and community sharing (which is the best part, as many of you know).
Romance is a fuel for life: within relationships and outside of them too. Single, married or somewhere in between: if you’re interested in romance and beauty not settling in life in general, then I really hope you’ll join us for this one!
Recording is available within the studio, too.
