Don’t hold yourself back from your dreams. Like a baby heron watching her parents fly away from the nest each day, dreaming of the day she would take flight, let the baby heron fly.

Lately, my literal dreams have been nightmares—a vision into my frazzled mind, stressed by the decisions that lay on the path ahead of me. I’ve been asking myself: What are my wildest, yet most true, dreams for my life? With a lot of reflection, I often do not know.

I dream of a simple life, viewing every sunrise from my front porch with patience, mindfully starting each day. Breathing while feeling the breeze change temperature as the seasons drift by. But I also dream of complexity—a new mountain to climb at least once a week, different waters, streams, ponds, lakes, and oceans to submerge myself into. Either way, I dream of many future lessons to learn. Of growth, challenges, and overcoming them.

I dream that one day dreaming won’t feel selfish.

In a world filled with suffering, even though that’s the one reality there always will be, an offering I am giving to myself is letting go.

Stop stealing from your own life by getting stuck in the labyrinth of not knowing—not knowing if what I’m doing is right, or enough, or good enough for the world I’ve found myself born into. Instead, just be kind to myself. Connect with others. Give when I can. And receive this gift of life fully, whatever it has for me, with open arms. And then give back equally, to others.

I’ll leave it at that for today—a simple offering to myself. I trust that by dreaming, by simply living, I am honoring the gift of life I’ve been given. Otherwise, we may be stealing from the life we were meant to live.

Let every dream—and every action toward it—be an offering to God and the divine flow of life.

It is not selfish to dream.

Cultivate Contentment & Let Go

If you’d like to practice with me, the following full length (70-minute) yin yoga class focuses on exploring the yogic principle of Asteya (non-stealing)—a practice of recognizing that we are already enough.

In this session, we'll settle into long-held postures that release tension in the hips, lower back, and pelvis, while also creating space (and silence) for self-reflection and contentment. Asteya reminds us to move away from the feeling of scarcity or lacking, and instead soften into the fullness of the present moment.

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