Between my last post and this one, I feel like I’ve been holding my breath. Valley Ayurveda has opened, to an amazing success. Last week couldn’t have been more exhilarating, terrifying, hilarious, and profound than it was. I feel incredibly humbled and grateful to be able to perform these ayurvedic treatments for people, and I truly believe the ancient oil techniques have a deeply healing effect on the body and spirit.
A few years ago with my life coach Peggy, I did a visualization of meeting my future self. We sat on the beach together as the waves gently lapped at our feet. She looked pretty cool, if I do say so myself. She said I could wade out into the ocean of my life path and dive in. Or I could sit quietly on the beach and let the tide come in around me. Either way, she said, I was going in the water. When I inquired about how all of this was going to happen, my future self smiled with a lovely wrinkled face and told me it was going to be more amazing than I could possibly imagine. At that point in my life, I stopped asking how and just started imagining what I wanted to happen in my life.
I saw myself sitting with clients and watched them nodding with excitement as something dawned on them. I imagined standing in front of a group of people describing some ayurvedic concept while they chuckled with understanding. I visualized standing by clients on the massage table and chanting a mantra, then pouring the warm oil on their bodies as if they were kings and queens. Ayurveda does not lack for beautiful visuals!
I never could have predicted the last six months of my life, or made Valley Ayurveda happen in any deliberate way. My own dream was way more humble, and to be realized at least ten years from where I am now. But last week, all of my dreams came true, and they were more amazing that I could ever have imagined. The ocean has rushed in around me, strong and sure. I am swimming in it!
