Hi Reader,

I’m a yoga teacher.

People sometimes assume that means I’m permanently calm, balanced and completely zen. I can assure you, I’m not. 🙂

There was a time when I was teaching around 18 sessions a week. I loved teaching. I’d chosen this work. I had built the life I wanted. And I was exhausted. I felt stressed. I had often very little left by the end of the day.

Then one of my children would need help with something — usually at exactly the moment when I felt I couldn’t deal with one more thing — and I snapped. And afterwards, I felt terrible. Why am I reacting like this?

I loved my children. I loved my work. This was the life I’d chosen.

Perhaps you know that feeling too. You have a good life. A family you love. Work that matters to you. A home. Friends. Perhaps holidays to look forward to. Much of what you once hoped for is already here. And yet some days you wonder why you aren’t enjoying it more. You become impatient over something tiny. By the evening, you don’t want anyone to need anything else from you. And then comes the guilt.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently as I work on the new Back to Rhythm programme.

Because that moment at 6pm rarely begins at 6pm. It may have started when you rushed through the morning. When breakfast was eaten while doing something else. When lunch happened too late or got skipped. When you kept going even though your body was asking for a break. When you made sure everyone else had something good to eat, then ate the leftovers yourself.

None of these moments seems particularly important on its own. But they become patterns.

And those patterns gradually shape how we feel, how much energy we have, how well we digest, how we sleep and even how much patience we have for the people around us.

This is one of the reasons Ayurveda places so much importance on our daily rhythms. The ordinary things we do every day matter. When we begin to notice those patterns, we can begin to change them. And gradually, there is more space to actually enjoy the life we’ve worked so hard to create.

This is very much at the heart of Back to Rhythm, my 12-week programme that I’ll be opening again soon.

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to share more of what I’m building into it and some of the everyday patterns I’ve been thinking about.

If this already sounds familiar, you can join the Back to Rhythm interest list below. You’ll be the first to hear when enrolment opens.

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