There’s a family movie called “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.” In this movie, everything that can possbily go wrong to a family, well does. And, throughout the movie, one bad thing happens after another. But at the end of the movie, the family realizes that what they have as a family is all they need in life.
That movie made me think of one of my new yoga student’s tonight. I never know what kind of day my yoga students have, I just know that I am there for them when they need me. During our classes, we focus on breathing techniques and we are mindful of our actions. In all, I just want to make sure that the one hour my students are under my instruction is the best hour of their day.
And on Monday, little did I realize the true impact I actually have on people. I’m not sharing this to be proud. I am sharing this because I am extremely humbled by the news I received:
After class, the new student approached me, telling me how badly she needed a yoga class tonight. I knew she had taken a class here and there before, but never under my instruction. She told me how during the 5 o’clock “dinner hour” she received disappointing news and could not shake the feeling of resentment — until she opened her mat inside LaGrange Yoga. Once inside the studio, her feelings shifted. At the end of class, she realized that while the news she received wasn’t exactly what she had hoped for, there are far more things in life to be thankful for at the end of the end — she has an amazing family, awesome kids and today, she had yoga. She had ME – and I never realized that maybe just what I say during class makes a small difference in someone’s day. People take yoga classes for different reasons — but we all deserve the same outcome — PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS! To me, that’s all that matters when we have a “terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.”
With Love,
Jeannette