We can choose.
Yoga Path
I am asking the yoga teachers who continue to post on FB about the energetic meaning behind, and the qualities of, COVID-19 to please stop!!!
Why? Because people are suffering!
I’ve seen a lot of social media posts from yoga teachers sharing on the spiritual meaning, the subtle energetic consequences, and the resulting contraction of COVID. It makes me feel very protective of those I love and those I know are in pain.
All illness is borne from the cumulative effect of a lifestyle of generations, their mental patterning, emotional health, and very much more. As yoga teachers, we are introduced to this from the beginning of our yoga studies. How we approach the subject begins with ahimsa.
Do you think COVID is different than any other illness in that has life threatening potential? Think about cancer, mental health, heart disease, addiction, all of these and more. Would you, as well-intentioned as you may be, walk up to someone who is ill and tell them they need to get over their fears? Would you inform them that if their energy was “right” they would have been, are, and will be protected from this virus? NO! Of course not! I mean, otherwise, why stop there? Hit up the cancer ward and when you learn the type of cancer a person is struggling, throw it up next to a subtle anatomy model and tell them where they are going wrong. And if they are poor, uneducated, diseased, afraid, and someone who has to survive for their next meal day after day; tell them to make time to meditate and cleanse their energy.
By continuing with a FB platform for your voice, you are speaking to a mass audience that holds within it people you have no idea exist. To speak so generally to your audience seems an abuse of your knowledge. It seems an abuse of what you have learned through the work and time you have put into studying human beings through the lens of energy. It is cruel to publicly expose all who are suffering from this virus.
IF someone were to ask or you found yourself with those who can enjoy a conversation about the energetic qualities of disease, that’s one thing. Your words can be very helpful for your clients, your personal students, your friends, and those who ask for it.
We as a people are suffering from COVID, suffering through the fear of getting it, and suffering through the pain of having it. We are suffering through the grief due to the loss of those that have died from it. Compassion is our call as yoga teachers.
We can do something in our daily actions through kindness. We can offer to help those who are homebound. We can focus our energy on healing. We can choose.
Namaste,
Kate