Time Off To Care For Me!

Hello Friends,

If you’re like “Wait - didn’t you just have a vacation?”. I was suppose to, but got CVD19 instead! If I’m being completely honest with myself and LISTENING to myself (which I am trying to practice these days), I know I need a break from teaching. I am feeling tired and uninspired. I LOVE what I do. I LOVE LOVE LOVE teaching yoga. But I am finding myself not wanting to teach right now just to have down time. When I do have down time, I don’t want to do anything. I usually love to cook, clean, and garden and I’m not even really doing those things these days.

Basically, I am feeling burned out. It’s been happening for a bit and I keep pushing through thinking “My BDay trip will help me reset.” Only poor Duellie got lymphoma and I chose not to travel. Or I think “When Whitman classes go on summer break and I have more time…” and somehow I don’t have more time and/or help resettle a family and/or get more clients and/or help caretake folks. Etc…. So I am going to take the 2 weeks off before Whitman starts back up and take time to recalibrate and nurture my beautiful HeartMindBody so that I come back to you in the Autumn nourished, inspired, and able to take care of y’all cause I took care of me.

This is not easy for me. I am über responsible and part of me (from old conditioning) wants to freak out about if I’ll make people mad or if I’ll lose clients or will I make enough money and all the things that come up when we try to go away from the grindstone culture this society perpetuates. But I’m trying to cultivate a new way of being for myself. I talk to y’all about doing the same. But if I don’t/can’t lead by example and I just talk about it - well - that doesn’t make me the best “teacher” now does it?! And so… I am using yoga practices to calm that nervous worry wort side of me down and reminding myself that I’m going to take time off and be productive in another way. In probably the most productive way we can be - REST & PLAY!!!!!

I will be taking off Monday, August 15 - Monday, August 29. We will begin classes again on Tuesday, August 30. I will be sending out new Zoom links through Patreon for the Autumn Session. If you aren’t a subscriber and have purchased individual sessions and don’t see an email before that Tuesday - please remind me to send them to you. (Insert my loud belly laugh here) There are many moving parts these days!

That means there are only 2 more chance to catch Yoga In The Vines out at Dusted Valley (Aug 6 & 13). When we come back in September the Saturday class will move back inside to our original FCC location.

As always thank you for your understanding and for your support. It truly makes such a difference to know that I have a community that wants me to do what’s right for me to be my healthiest.

A self-inquiry for you might during this time be: Am I feeling a bit burned out? Can I take some time off and take care of myself? If the answer to the first question was yes, but you went through a litany of reasons why you can’t take time off - Are you sure about that or are you just creating obstacles based on fear? (I sure was. I’ve been thinking about doing this for about 4 months and only now had the ovaries to move forward on it!)

We still have about 2 weeks left before I take my much needed break. So find me in-person. Find me on Zoom. Find that you can support yourself through this life with the beautiful practices that have been and continue to be tried and true for hundreds of thousands of people through the ages. Give yourself that gift. If not with me, no worries. But find ways to nourish and care for yourself.

As always - if you feel like you are not getting your money’s worth, just talk to me and we’ll figure something out. And remember - you can always find over 500 videos online to do while I’m gone :-)

Patreon.com/CJoyYoga

Be well Friends. Take care of yourselves. And again - thank you for understanding.

So Much Love,
CJoy

Christel Joy Johnson