Dancing My Way Home | Inspired by 25 Tools for Navigating Loss, Grief and Transition

Folks typically ask me how I turned a meditation instructor, breath coach, yoga instructor, Ayurveda educator, and Chakradance facilitator.

My reply is all the time the identical:

I didn’t begin with wellness.

I began with dance.

As a younger woman rising up in Taiwan, I educated in Chinese language Opera and later found ballroom and Latin dance. Motion turned the language by way of which I expressed myself, challenged myself, and discovered about life. After transferring to the USA, I continued performing and competing with skilled dance companions earlier than ultimately opening my very own ballroom dance studio in Silicon Valley. Trying again, motion has been my instructor for so long as I can bear in mind.

From the surface, my life seemed profitable. I used to be doing what I beloved and serving to others do the identical.

But one thing inside me was nonetheless looking out.

Like many individuals, I spent years making an attempt to develop into extra—extra achieved, extra educated, extra profitable. I believed that if I labored laborious sufficient and achieved sufficient, I’d lastly really feel full.

What I didn’t understand was that I wasn’t searching for extra.

I used to be searching for a approach dwelling.

Over time, life started introducing me to new academics and new paths. Yoga taught me the way to hearken to my physique. Meditation taught me the way to sit quietly with myself. Breathwork confirmed me that each breath carries the potential for a brand new starting. Ayurveda helped me perceive that true well-being comes from dwelling in concord with nature somewhat than combating towards it.

Every follow supplied one thing precious, however the biggest reward was consciousness.

I started to note how typically I used to be dwelling on autopilot. I seen how a lot power I spent worrying about what different individuals thought. I seen how simply I may develop into disconnected from my very own inside knowledge.

Slowly, I discovered a special way of life.

As a substitute of continually asking, “What ought to I do subsequent?”

I started asking, “What feels true?”

As a substitute of pushing tougher, I discovered to pause.

As a substitute of forcing life to unfold in line with my plans, I started listening extra deeply.

The extra I listened, the extra I found that the solutions I used to be looking for had been inside me all alongside.

At the moment, motion continues to be an vital a part of my life.

I stroll.

I stretch.

I dance in my lounge.

Typically I sit quietly in meditation.

Typically I write in my journal.

Typically I merely watch the dawn and hear.

These practices might look easy, however they regularly deliver me again to myself.

They remind me that life will not be a race to be gained. It’s a dance to be skilled.

Folks typically see the certifications after my identify and assume that my journey is about turning into a instructor.

For me, it has all the time been about turning into a scholar of life.

Each problem has taught me one thing.

Each relationship has taught me one thing.

Each loss, each pleasure, each sudden flip has develop into a part of the dance.

At the moment, at sixty-three years previous, I not really feel the necessity to have all of the solutions.

I belief the method greater than I did earlier than.

I hear greater than I did earlier than.

And I proceed studying day-after-day.

That’s the reason my private motto has develop into:

Why stroll when you possibly can dance with life?

I’m nonetheless studying.

Nonetheless loving.

Nonetheless turning into.

And I’m nonetheless dancing with life.

Article written by Sherry Wuu.

Meet Sherry Wuu, Chopra Scholar, Complete Properly-Being Coach, writer, and wellness educator. Within the soon-to-be-released e-book The Wellness Universe Guide to Complete Self-Care: 25 Tools for Navigating Loss, Grief and Transition, Sherry shares her journey by way of one of the troublesome intervals of her life and the practices that helped her transfer from grief and helplessness towards presence, therapeutic, and self-discovery.

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