Is it the millennial in me?
If any of you follow me on social media, you will know I very rarely take photos of people doing their practice. Why?
It’s not fair. People should be able to come to a space and not be thinking about being papped!!
I find it an invasion of privacy. Particularly in savasana. There are places that people go to inside that is a personal journey for them. For me to capitalise on this feels yucky.
I don’t do it for the gram!
Which leads me on to, I also don’t show a lot of myself on my socials (I’m getting better) but it’s almost as though we all have to be these celebs with ‘profiles’ and then teamed with that you have to be your own videographer, social media manager, PR manager and graphic designer.
To tell you the truth, part of me says no. I teach yoga to promote peace, for people to cultivate peace. Now, if I became the above I wouldn’t really be practicing what I believe. I’d be sucked into the digital world that I know in my heart doesn’t equal peace. I’d rather be in the garden planting seeds, planning my next adventure or dancing in the kitchen, or making a delicious recipe.
I long for a more innocent time, where we weren’t stuck to our phones, where everything wasn’t ‘content’, where just being and playing were for fun. Maybe it’s the millennial in me, maybe I should have been born in a different generation!