Sonja Lockyer - The Wellbeing Ritual

Catching rabbits 🐇🐇 I love the truism that you can not catch two rabbits, you have to choose one or you will catch neither.

When we are deeply passionate about many things, or perhaps we are feeling the overwhelm of multiple responsibilities, then this expression helps us to focus. What matters most right now? What are you going all in on?

I myself have needed to choose a rabbit in the past 6 months as the journey into becoming a practitioner of psychotherapy has reorganised my priorities.

I’m slower these days as I try to stay present, conscious, embodied and careful. My capacity to juggle has changed. My willingness to rush diminished.

This has meant letting go of teaching yoga classes, qoya and massages whilst I study for my 4th year & write my dissertation. This has meant stabilising my income with a regular job on the shop floor. This has meant diving in deeper to learning and growing and reflecting on the experience of being a humble beginner once again.

I have found all of this to be hard. So hard. To get through it, every ingredient of my life has been carefully considered & chosen to keep me resourced.

What has risen to the top of my self care priorities is meditation, without which I would be awash with overwhelm. OMR remains my non negotiable.

And when I can, I go to Carey’s for yoga taught by others which nourishes me deeply. Todays class at was a blend of yoga and primal movement by the incredible ~ highly recommend 👌

Big transitions force us to let go of what we know and to trust what is emerging, which sounds good & well until you’re in it and clinging like crazy to something that feels solid. What we know feels solid. What we don’t know feels like the void and it can be terrifying.

Form & formlessness.

We breathe in, we exhale.

The movement of change never stops.

Sometimes our only job is to choose a rabbit, trust the process and take care of ourself as we ride the waves.

Thank you Carey’s & Beccy for this mornings practice 🙏

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