As we are closing out June this week, I used our classes to remind us of the importance of building our emotional resilience muscle and to always come back to our spiritual center. This I hope will set us all up for an easeful, peaceful and joyful summer!!

I highlighted 2 “tools” to help us.

First, I asked everyone to make a choice this week. Rather than filling in the….of I choose, I wanted you all to try what I am using this week…..I choose a broader perspective of what I am seeing. What do you think?
Life has a way of narrowing our vision For example, when we're stressed, we see only the problem. When we're afraid, we see only what could go wrong. The mind naturally zooms in. It wants certainty. It wants control. It wants to protect us.
But yoga and meditation invites us to do something different:
To pause. To breathe. To soften our grip on one story and remember there is always a larger picture. A broader perspective doesn't change the circumstances—it changes how we meet them.
It reminds us:
This moment isn't the whole story.
One difficult conversation doesn't define a relationship.
One setback doesn't define our future.
One emotion doesn't define who we are.

Can we step out of the small, reactive mind and reconnect with something wiser within us—our spiritual center.
From that place, we can ask:
What else might be true?
What am I not seeing?
How would my highest self respond?
That is emotional resilience. Resilience isn't never falling apart. It's remembering how to come home to yourself. Again. And again. And again.
Silently we can repeat:
I choose a broader perspective.
I choose trust.
I choose to return to my center.

Every yoga practice is an opportunity to step out of a narrow view and into a wider one—to remember that we are more than our thoughts, bigger than our circumstances, and always able to choose the perspective from which we live.


On to the second tool for emotional resilience and strengthening our ability to comeback to our spiritual center this summer is Yoga Sutra 1.33, which Patanjali says is one of the most practical teachings in the entire Yoga Sutras.

“By cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for those who are suffering, joy toward the virtuous, and equanimity toward those who act unskillfully, the mind becomes clear and peaceful.”

An easy way to understand it:
When someone is happy or successful → be friendly instead of jealous.
When someone is struggling → offer compassion instead of judgment.
When someone is doing good in the world → feel joy for them instead of comparing yourself.
When someone is acting poorly → practice equanimity (stay balanced) instead of getting caught in anger or resentment.

The sutra is teaching us that our suffering often comes not from other people, but from how we react to them.

“Patanjali reminds us that peace of mind is not found by controlling the world around us, but by choosing our response to it. When we meet happiness with friendliness, pain with compassion, goodness with appreciation, and difficulty with steadiness, the mind settles naturally into peace.”

In Sanskrit, these four qualities are often called:

Maitri – Friendliness
Karuna – Compassion
Mudita – Appreciative Joy
Upeksha – Equanimity

Together they form a powerful recipe for a calmer, clearer heart and mind. ❤️

Lots of food for thought here, take a moment or 2 of quiet introspection so all of this can serve you during the summer solstice energy and have an amazing summer.

“THIS JOURNEY HAS TAKEN US THROUGH THE UNPREDICTABLE WINDS OF CHANGE, THE UNCERTAIN TIMES OF DARKNESS, AND THE HEALiNG BREATH OF SPRING. OUR LAST STEPS BRING US NOW TO THE EDGE OF THE VISIBLE WORLD. IT IS AN ENDLESS SEASHORE, FİLLED WITH LIGHT AND PEACE.
i BELIEVE iNSİDE OUR HEARTS iT CAN ALWAYS BE SUMMER. THE FARTHER WE TRAVEL, THE MORE WE REALIZE WE ALWAYS HAVE OURSELVES. AND THE LONGER WE ARE WITH OURSELVES, THE MORE WE UNDERSTAND THAT IN OUR INNER WORLD, WE CAN ALWAYS HAVE SUNSHINE İF WE CHOOSE.”
Iulia Bochis