Roseanna Bruce
I started practising Yoga roughly 11 years ago, prior to that I had been a Dancer, so in one way or another I have been moving my body in these kinds of ways all of my life. I was particularly drawn to the way Yoga brought together Philosophy, Spirituality, Religiosity (whatever you want to call it) with Movement. Movement always felt sacred to me, a kind of prayer, a way to whisper into the unknown the things I couldn’t find words for. It was always a way to internally process, sort and clear, it worked for me the same way dreams do; in some unconscious, illogical and non linear way the body could figure it all out. I feel the same way about Yoga today as I felt about Dancing 20 years ago.
Within my teaching I am particularly passionate about guiding people towards being completely present inside their physical body, I find this to be the optimal first step (quite the journey already) towards a harmonious internal experience.
Mind, Sensory, Emotional, Energetic, many bodies live within the physical body. These ‘other’ bodies affecting our nervous system and therefor effecting our lived experience inside our physical body. When we realise that we have the power to effect the state of all of these ‘bodies’ we can transform the way we experience our lives for the better. The power that we wield is a soft kind of power, one of surrender, one of coming into the present moment, one of re learning or re discovering the state of ‘being’.
I read this quote recently that I loved and it feels apt to share it here…
“This is the archetypical trajectory of everyone’s life: the great search for happiness in the realm of objective experience and the return to the treasure of ones own being. The unfolding of ones life on the horizontal dimension and the periodic plunge into the vertical dimension of being.”
Rupert Spira ‘You Are the Happiness You Seek’
The way I experience it Yoga and Meditation can be a way to take this ‘periodic plunge’ into ‘Being’.
At least for me it has always been the guide I could follow to find that place and If I can use it as a tool to help other people find it too, this is the greatest gift.