I’m getting to know several new students after returning from my trip. We are doing well together and looking to many more classes in the future. One of them arrived late for my beginners’ class due to parking confusion and uncertainty about which door to enter.
In the disturbance of her joining us, I shifted into compassion for what it takes to do something new. The other students shifted with me as they remembered what it was like for them to attend for their first time, as well as what it’s like to return after some time away. All of us found the joy of yoga practice, as class continued in the union of understanding that the hardest part of the yoga path is beginning, again and again.
How do you handle the stress challenge of doing something new? Can you allow yourself to have beginner’s mind, without expectation? Ki to Happiness remembers “the first days are the hardest days” with every beginning.