When we practice together, my intention is to provide a space for you to feel a sense of connection to yourself and to provide an opportunity for you to experience yourself as whole and complete just as you are.
It’s potentially a more effective marketing strategy to instead say that I’m going to ‘fix you’ or ‘improve you’ or ‘transform you’ but it would be out of integrity for me to claim that when I don’t believe it.
I mean, I expect that our connection will touch both of us. That’s the beauty of sharing an experience.
But I don’t believe that I am the one to ‘fix you’ because you are not in need of fixing. You are already a masterpiece. More than enough. Inherently worthy. Just as you are.
For some of us, those words might sit comfortably. I picture you nodding like they do in the Baptist church, rattling your little shaker and in a low voice saying “Mmmm hmmm, Amen!”
For some of us though, those words might feel a little phoney or foreign or somehow not as comfortable.
You might doubt your worthiness, or feel inadequate from time to time, or incomplete somehow, like there’s something more you need to know, do or have in order to feel whole and complete.
Or even, just feel a little out of touch with that sense of inherent wholeness, or distracted by life’s little and big worries.
How very human of you.
I feel that too sometimes.
That’s why we practice.
To make Peace with ourselves and our humanness and, to remember.
And my job is to provide a container in which you might call forth the already, ever present sense of ease and joy and compassion and goodness within.
I believe in you, your radiance. And I believe in mine.
The very existence of you and me is proof positive that we have a right to be here, just as we are.

The more we can be established in that, the more we can show up and shine in the world.
In this way, the practice is not only good for us but good for those whose lives we touch.
When we operate from our sense of ‘enoughness’ - that feeling of being whole, we have nothing to prove and everything to share.
It’s, as Mary Oliver says in her poem ‘To Begin with, the Sweet Grass’

”Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.”