On Time

I hate to say I told you so, but....HAS IT ONLY BEEN ONE WEEK SINCE MY LAST POST?!?!?! When I wrote about the Lion's Gate last week, it was really just with a leo's love for all things leonine. I did not have a particular concept of how a "portal" might impact my sense of time and space. Yet it feels to me as though it has been eons since I sat down to compose my last post.  Maybe it has been; all I know is that today I am feeling REALLY different than I did last week.  
I began these weekly posts to let people know about the yoga classes I​ began teaching via Zoom in March of 2020.  I started my yoga teacher training in 2009, and have had several gigs teaching, including co-owning an enterprise called Soil to Soul, which was a curated community space with yoga and other wellness education. While I love teaching yoga, the main focus of my day to day work life really centers around my massage and bodywork practice, Therapeutic Bodyworks.  THAT career began  back in 1995, and before that I worked as an assistant for a dear friend who is a hair stylist.  And before that, in another lifetime, it seems, I had a five year career in retail.  And even before that, I went to college with a focus in Design, my true love being art and photography, but, according to my parents, I needed a career where I could earn a living, and artists could only ever "starve in a garret somewhere."  So yeah.
All this to say that where I have ended up is not where I thought I would be when my adulthood began.  Career-wise, I identify mainly as a massage and bodywork therapist, yet I have never been ultimately satisfied with only that. As far as "careers" go, it has been amazing, no complaints, not one, and MANY MANY blessings, including the amazing people I have touched, and been "touched" by( reference this scene from School of Rock, iykyk). But it occurs to me that a career is a construct, and has only a little to do with what we humans are here on Earth to do.  I am not searching for a purpose.  Life is living Itself through me, and that is purpose enough.  But Life has also planted a stirring in my spirit.  That is what is at work again now, as many times before, creating IN me the sense that there is more to be created THROUGH me.   
So, things are shifting. I am not sure what is coming next, but I am here for it.  Check the link below for my new yoga class schedule.
xo Nicole ​