Life has taken a strange turn. Studio Om has become a second home to me and in a lesser sort to Brian. I'm there for workshops, for classes I take, and for two classes that I teach. It is a wonderful refuge. On Saturday we learned that it would be going away. The owner needed a break, and to move onto other things in her life. I cried. It felt wrong, as though the heart were being removed from the Pataskala alternative community. Brian had suggested before that we might want to manage the studio. I felt that there was no way I could do the financial aspect. Brian said he would be financial manager, if I could do the running of the studio, the teaching, the scheduling. I agreed, we approached the owner and have been scrambling the past 5 days to set everything up before Spring quarter starts in three weeks. I am elated and scared and tired and cranky and enthusiastic and depressed, all in turns. I am sad the Studio will turn from a refuge to a responsibility for me. I am thrilled we can keep it open for the people who depend on it. I am scared with all the yoga studios opening in the area we will end up losing money. I am starting to get a vision of what I would like the studio to be as my studio and that is elating. And I'm still coming out of SAD - so the depression makes things even scarier. I hope this will be a grand time for us. I hope it will bring us together. It feels in my very center of my being like this is what we were meant to do -even if we lose money, even if it doesn't grow. This is what is needed right here and now and the torch is being passed to us, personally.
Anyway - I am experimenting with things like changing websites and this is a stab at putting the Om calendar on the website. Spring Quarter - starts April 1st and the grand adventure begins!
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