Redirection gifts during quarantine

Have you felt like the quarantine has offered you a positive redirection? A chance to redirect your energy toward family, an old or new. A chance to slow down entirely and re-evaluate what you actually value. I certainly have.

Since we've been in quarantine, I've relished in moving at a slower pace. I enjoy leisurely breakfasts and my morning spiritual practice (a couple of grounding yoga poses, Kundalini Yoga spinal flex, alternate nostril breathing, and meditation). I journal every day, which is essential for processing what I'm feeling during the pandemic.

I walk Bugzy each morning, and see things different and see some things for the first time.... like these tiny cactus flowers that only bloom in the morning and springtime here in Arizona. How have I never seen these little pops of life before?!

I feel more grounded and connected than I did when I was shuffling back and forth from an office, amongst a whole world doing the same.

I've also discovered that until recently, I have not felt inspired to add content to my Flutterbee social profiles. There, I said it.

In fact, I was feeling completely resistant to doing so. While I was catching up with my close friend, Jackie, (by phone, since we're under stay at home orders, and she lives in NY anyway), I realized the reason why I was feeling resistant is because I am finding the old norms and structures of my life aren't fitting me anymore. It's like trying to squeeze into a jacket I wore as a child. I realize that life isn't meant to be a flurry of traffic and emails and stress. I have been putting myself in little boxes of expectations and obligations, all the way down to my yoga business social media profiles, and I want to break free from those boxes and have the courage to not walk right back into them.

I have been posting content to Instagram that follows all the right aesthetic “formulas”- post a photo, post a quote card, post a photo, post a quote card. Oh and don't forget to keep the same filter for all your posts! Consistency and cohesion is key! Okay, sure, it looks pretty and well put together, but it doesn't really reflect any of my personality. I was feeling very shackled and constricted by the format I was adhering to with my own posts.

Then another layer of insight came to me. In keeping that very consistent and cohesive Instagram tile aesthetic thing going, I was operating more from my head space than my heart space! Which is the very thing I aim to help others NOT do (my whole philosophy is helping you get into your heart space and out of your head space)

So, from here on forward I choose flexibility and fluidity over rigidity. I choose authenticity over formulas. How that choice continues to unfold for me will be interesting, I think.

How have you been redirected during the pandemic? What's been coming up for you?

P.s.- I don't have many photos of myself in quarantine so I'm using a couple from an amazing family trip to Ecuador three years ago. The below photo was one of the most grounding experiences of my entire life...sitting in the arm of a Kepak Tree (a very healing and grounding tree in the rainforest. Special to tribal people).

Me soaking up the energy of a Kepak Tree

Grounding & Lifting in Ecuador.