Exploring Our Potential Together in May

 Hey friends! This month over at Flowing Flamingo it’s all about exploring our potential…

May is the perfect time for this; a season of bloom. Nature is really starting to grow into its potential and it’s encouraging us to do the same. So, we will allow ourselves the opportunity to explore who we are, our dreams, desires, hopes and see what can come of it. Potential is all about expansion, opportunity and growth. Discovering what lights us up, brings us joy and leaning into what could be and making it happen. I believe that life (maybe not society sometimes), but the universe works in our favour…if we let it. And that if we open our hearts and minds to the potential within us then we can genuinely do anything.

Teaching at a Tisserand / ASICS brand event

 Oftentimes – in my humble opinion- the biggest barrier to exploring and pursuing our potential is our noisy minds. The self-imposed limiting beliefs, self-doubt as well as the opinions and projections of others. If we can understand them, reframe them, work around them or even better yet when it comes to other people’s projections– ignore them... then we can be free!

This month during class we are going to work with three chakra energies to help us come into balance once more and explore this potential.

We will begin by grounding into our root chakra – the space at the base of your spine. This will connect us into the safety and stability of our worth…knowing that we have everything we need within us to be our best AND live the best version of our lives. We don’t need external forces to validate us because our sense of worth is secure.

We will then work with our sacral chakra- the space below your belly button. This area helps us to tap into our creativity, our dreams and our passions. Beginning to explore what they are.

Finally, we will work once more with my favourite chakra, our solar plexus- the space above your belly button. This chakra connects us to our own personal power and gifts us our self-belief. The knowledge that WE CAN!!

Through flows, breathwork, tips and of course a solid savasana we will explore our potential in class and on social.

So come join me!  

Exploring my own potential – my story

I have always believed that you can do anything you put your mind too…that the world is expansive and opportunities are plenty… I’m a glass half full kinda gal.

But what I hadn’t realised was when I was moving through my corporate career I had actually pigeon holed myself into one route, one path and one potential. I never felt like this at the time. I felt like I had so much potential within myself to unlock and within my career progression too. But my thinking was so linear.

“I have the potential to be Marketing Director one day”, “I have the potential to work in Sales if I want”, “I have the potential to move into a different industry and work for a big brand there”….

Presenting on stage- this was an amazing moment for me! So proud.

 You see, my thinking was fairly one dimensional. The potential was within one world only- the corporate world.

So, when I had my crisis of confidence that essentially changed my whole life forever (you can read more about that in this blog and others)- my potential started to shift.

As I realised that my purpose was sitting outside of my current role, and the corporate world in general, I recognised that there wasn’t just one linear path I could take my life in… but actually that there weren’t any paths at all!!

This was so liberating. We talk about career paths and life paths all the time like it’s some sort of predetermined ‘thing’ that the universe has set out for us, but when I made the choice to do something so vastly different from the life I had in mind for myself … train to be a yoga teacher… I essentially threw myself off that path.

I remember describing it to people as this….

It’s like there was a door near the path I was on, and by choosing to train as a yoga teacher I opened the door. Behind the door wasn’t a new path, but instead a never-ending green field with no paths at all!! I could completely choose and create my own.

It made me think that for me to really become expansive and truly step into my potential within my career and my life I had to face my limiting beliefs – which there were many (check out this blog if you want to know more)- and literally throw myself off the path, through the door and into the field haha!

Getting my qualification

Now I walk around this field, going any way I want. Trying it out and seeing how it fits. And as I said before… life is in our favour, so when we explore our potential and move in an aligned way for ourselves, the universe gets on board.

Now, I’m not saying we all need to jump off that path like I did… but reframing the limiting beliefs, the fear of failure and moving past the external opinions of others will help you to not only explore and realise your potential (dreams, passions, opportunities), but it will also help you to take action to live it!

Wellness Activity

To help us all get into the swing of exploring our potential this month I have a couple of journal questions to kick things off.

So, grab a cuppa, a pen and paper, get cosy and let’s start writing.

Remember with journalling, don’t overthink it. At first, you might write completely random things that don’t make much sense or even really mundane things…but keep writing and eventually what you need to say will come out.

What gifts do you have to offer the world?

What makes you feel passionate and alive?

Are you doing enough of this?

If you were to remove self-doubt completely, what would you be doing?

What do you want to create, manifest or bring to life?

Take your time, you might even want to revisit these several times over as the answers will and can change. It also might not come to your straight away, but that’s ok… just the act of believing you have potential will bring it to life!

Because my friends, you are worthy of all that you want!!

See you in class,

Love, Tash xx