25 Years - All is coming
I am in my bad lady time of “all is coming 25 years”, which was the prophecy that Larry Schultz got from Pattabi Jois at the age of 31, Pattabi told him he was a bad man and that all is coming 25 years and at the age of 56, Larry learned that late in life he could have love and happiness no matter what.
Now it is my time to celebrate my 25 years of being the “bad lady” of rocket yoga, or at least since I took my teacher training. 25 years have brought me two beautiful sons and 1 brand new grandson, which has turned out to be the biggest surprise of my life thus far.
I was in San Francisco at a very special time when yoga teacher training was a new concept. Something happened to all of us out there around that time and the trail blazing effect is tangible. Relationships have changed in our personal lives, some of us have moved and lived around the world but a common thread keeps us together and that’s “It’s Yoga”
25 years is not about what wealth we have acquired but instead about the relationships we made along the way, the beautiful lifestyle that we all share and being able to watch the next generation be inspired by what we and Larry started many many moons ago.
25 years has taken me too and from San Francisco, Sonoma and Sausilitio at least over 20 times, between visiting Larry Schultz from after he passed to keeping a close relationship with Robert Marlowe, ones of Larry's confidants for the past decade, where I not only learned to instruct yoga but I also learned about practicing and teaching Pilates and what a true California lifestyle is.
25 years have taken me all over the world teaching rocket and meeting amazing people along the way, one of my first international rocket trainings was in Nicaragua where baby sea turtles hatched and came onto my porch mistaking my lamp as the moon, and Edwin gathered them and put them in a laundry basket where we released them with the yogis attending Rocket training. I literally have my own baby sea turtles that live on a beach in Nicaragua. I made lifelong friends there and that led me to start teaching in Costa Rica. Later I was invited to teach in England and Canada. One of my favorite trainings was in Banff, one of the most beautiful mountain towns in the world.
25 years also took me on a magical, mystical journey of music, I’ve seen Phish probably 70 times as well as 100’s of other bands and shows. I’ve had friends pass on and others that I’ve supported into recovery. As you get older you start to realize how precious life is and if we don’t do the “medicine work”, nothing can change and evolve and we become stuck mentally and physically.
Some of the hardest parts have been more recent doing my own trauma and medicine work, sometimes you think you are okay but at the end of the day you can only look into the mirror of your own soul and become forced to start to do the ‘work’ on the harder stuff.
I’ve been a trailblazer for rocket yoga in so many ways but that no longer defines the depth of my teaching and understanding. I have begun a new path, Emersons Yoga Training where I am taking all my pain, grief and all the hard stuff I’ve been through and helping others.
I’ve definitely have had to overcome a lot to be where I am today, but I never blinked, I just kept on teaching. I probably have well over 20,000 hours completed of teaching and sometimes after you do all that, you ask yourself, what’s next? What does “all is coming” mean? Well let’s see, let's live in the question. But so far I feel that this is a good time to take my power back as a woman and realize my worth. I've already done a lot of really hard stuff so if I come off like a queen, I’ve earned it through blood, sweat and tears.