I find that as I'm getting ready to head back to the US, I'm Sad. Every time I travel I leave a part of my heart on my journey. To me traveling is living. Traveling is loving; loving life and presently loving those whom are in your company. Traveling keeps me open-minded and connected to the world. It is important to me to always be a Citizen of the World. I will continue to make sacrifices in my life in order to make sure that I keep the joy of traveling alive.
My goal is to enjoy life more, work less, save money and travel more - using the gift of yoga as I go. To work hard 8-9 months a year and then spend my summers traveling and teaching international yoga. This last year has been a year of non-stop working, sometimes 12 hours a day 6 or 7 days a week. I was burnt-out. I never want to go back to that crazy work work work all the time mentality, even if it is doing what I love. I'm learning that having time to just be is so important. I'm also realizing that living and working in Southern California is a blessing and a curse. CA is its own beast. Beautiful but the pressure to look and be a certain way is exhausting. I find that working in yoga and fitness I'm expected to be/look a certain way. I'm a size 4. In CA a size 4 might as well be a size 10. I'm constantly working out, watching what I eat, pushing my body too hard. Every time I travel, I am reminded of how the world is different. There is not always the pressure to be thin. When abroad, I work out less, eat whatever I want, take long walks, drink plenty of wine and I always lose weight. I'm happier. I do not feel the pressure to look a certain image... I'm just me. So this time as I pack to head back to LA, I'm going to try my hardest to not care about the CA image. I'm not going to try and be a size 2 or an XS (extra small-that's the new size now). I'm just going to be me...
My goal is to enjoy life more, work less, save money and travel more - using the gift of yoga as I go. To work hard 8-9 months a year and then spend my summers traveling and teaching international yoga. This last year has been a year of non-stop working, sometimes 12 hours a day 6 or 7 days a week. I was burnt-out. I never want to go back to that crazy work work work all the time mentality, even if it is doing what I love. I'm learning that having time to just be is so important. I'm also realizing that living and working in Southern California is a blessing and a curse. CA is its own beast. Beautiful but the pressure to look and be a certain way is exhausting. I find that working in yoga and fitness I'm expected to be/look a certain way. I'm a size 4. In CA a size 4 might as well be a size 10. I'm constantly working out, watching what I eat, pushing my body too hard. Every time I travel, I am reminded of how the world is different. There is not always the pressure to be thin. When abroad, I work out less, eat whatever I want, take long walks, drink plenty of wine and I always lose weight. I'm happier. I do not feel the pressure to look a certain image... I'm just me. So this time as I pack to head back to LA, I'm going to try my hardest to not care about the CA image. I'm not going to try and be a size 2 or an XS (extra small-that's the new size now). I'm just going to be me...
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