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I make my life to teach people how to breathe. Every year I talk to hundreds of individuals – teachers, lawyers, entrepreneurs, doctors, yoga students – about how their nervous system works. Students learn how somatic healing can support connection, community and compassion and how powerful breathing is. But people are often surprised when I also tell them: “Hey, this may not work for you.”
When I started practicing yoga and Somatics in 2006, I thought it would be the finite solution for my suffering. Have all gurus nirvana not promised if you just dived deep enough? I really believed that at some point I would reach a state where everything would be great. I would always be calm and collected, and my trauma from the past would just solve. Spoiler: that’s nonsense.
Yes, mindfulness works. Breathing is important. Yoga has the potential to cure. But sometimes you don’t have to be calm. Calm and centered is not always the goal. What I teach is not about staying peaceful, regardless of what – it is about suitable reactions to real situations. And sometimes the correct reaction is to be crazy, devastating sad or deeply frustrated.
People always ask: “But when is it okay to be crazy? Have not been supposed to be Yoga teachers Zen?” I answer: why are we so obsessed by always being serene? That is the opposite of what Mindfulness learns, and certainly not the reality. Mindfulness is about consciousness – non -suffocating feelings or the force of poisonous positivity.
The human experience is messy. It includes sorrow, anger, disappointment and frustration. What would life be like if you all let it sit a bit – no breathing, no yoga poses, not searching for the silver lining – who just accept that things are sometimes bad?
Recently a customer came to me after losing his job. They had taken breathing for days, tried to “stay positive” and “find the lesson.” When I asked how they felt, they said, “I should be grateful for this opportunity to grow.” I stopped them there. “Or,” I said, “you could just be pissed off that you were fired during a recession and your boss was a dick about it.” The relief on their face was immediately. In the end, someone gave them permission to feel what they actually felt.
Here is the thing: sometimes your system is deregulated and you are in a bad mood because life is difficult. No amount of deep breathing will change that magically. But it’s also a start. Mindfulness is not a pill, it’s a process.
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