Who Just Said “I Can’t?”- Wait, That Was Me

I love it when Sianna Sherman comes to town.  She is my favorite travelling yoga teacher.  I save up to take her classes and rearrange anything short of a wedding or a funeral to make sure I can attend.  You would think that the mental preparation would be as important as the physical, but somehow I was mentally unprepared for the classes I took during her February visit to Shine Yoga Studio in Hyde Park.

I show up to class, new mat in hand, ready to learn everything that she could teach so I could pass it on to my students.  The classes were so full there was only a few inches of floor between each mat in every direction.   There were two dedicated teachers just to help adjust the numerous students.  The first afternoon was devoted to therapeutics.   We worked with partners, each giving and receiving guidance and therapy.  I enjoyed working with my new friend, learning all kinds of different ways to help my students and clients release the tensions within the body.  Our teacher called it clearing, just like we talk about clearing blocks in Reiki.

                On the way home, I realized something embarrassing.  One of the teachers who was adjusting posture really got on my nerves.  I actually told her “I can’t” twice and I didn’t even realize it.  There is no “I can’t” in my vocabulary! Or maybe there is, but it’s not something I want in there.  I didn’t want to miss the next class, but the teacher would be there so I needed to figure something out to fix my issue.

                In any relationship there are two or more people.  Unfortunately the only one I can fix is me.  Wouldn’t it be great if everyone else would just accommodate me?  Not gonna happen.  As I started to ruminate on the problem, I just couldn’t get a handle on what was going on.  In a blinding flash of the obvious, I realized that I didn’t have to.

This is one of the true gifts of reiki.  There is no need to figure things out.  Just send reiki to “whatever is the cause of the behavior I don’t like (insert the name here).”  I spent some time Friday night, then Saturday on the ride back to the studio just sending reiki to whatever was blocking my reception of her gift of teaching.

The transformation was nothing short of miraculous.  What a great class, only due to the gift of reiki.  My body has had many falls and minor car accidents. This makes it hard to find the yoga motions within my own body, though I can see and find them in others as I teach.  Now I have a template within my body for the actions I create in others.  There was so much energy moving in my body, I’ve had a hard time speaking for several days after class.    My thanks to my guides and all the experiences that brought me here.