🦋 Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Earth

What if the very thing you were told to “fix” is actually your greatest gift?

I used to be told I had my head in the clouds. It was not always said kindly. Sometimes it came with frustration, sometimes with dismissal, sometimes with the quiet implication that I needed to be more realistic, more grounded, more tethered to what is instead of what could be.

For a while, I questioned that part of myself.

• Was I too much?
• Too idealistic?
• Too disconnected from reality?

Something in me never fully let it go. Instead, I found myself responding with a quiet truth I did not yet fully understand:

I am the best of both worlds.

I am grounded and I have my head in the clouds.

For so long it felt like a defense. Now, I see it for what it really was: Wisdom.

My recent travel to Morocco, like many meaningful experiences in life, did not unfolded exactly as planned. Lost luggage. Overstimulation. Moments of overwhelm that asked me to slow down instead of push through.

After a couple days I listened to my inner voice. I stepped away from the noise of the marketplaces and souks. I gave myself permission to return to stillness. I picked up my Light on Life book and allowed myself to receive instead of do.

That is when it found me. A passage describing how we live between two realms: earth and sky. Grounded below and expansive above.

Then the yoga pose Tadasana (Mountain Pose). A posture I have practiced countless times. This time, it landed differently. Feet rooted firmly into the earth. Crown of the head reaching toward the sky. Stable. Expansive. Both. I intentionally paused.

In that moment, something clicked in a way I have never felt before: This is what I have been trying to articulate for years. Not just in yoga. Not just in coaching. In who I am.

There is a concept in yoga philosophy called cit-akasha, the “space of consciousness.” An inner sky. A vast, open awareness that lives within each of us where intuition, imagination, and vision resides. Suddenly, the phrase that once felt like criticism (“head in the clouds”) took on an entirely new meaning.

What if that part of you is not distraction?

What if it is connection?

What if it is the place where your deepest knowing lives?

Here is what I am beginning to understand: You do not have to choose. Not between logic and intuition. Not between structure and flow. Not between being grounded in reality and dreaming beyond it. Your power is in the integration. In being rooted enough to feel safe and expansive enough to imagine more. In honoring what is while staying open to what is possible.

Maybe this is why this moment unfolded the way it did. The lost luggage. The slowed pace. The quiet return inward. Even the kindness of a stranger offering to help me find something as simple as a swimsuit reminding me that support exists when I soften and allow.

All of it guiding me back to this: You do not need to shrink any part of yourself to belong. Not your groundedness. Not your vision. Not your depth. Not your hope.

If you have ever been told:

• That you are too much.
• Too emotional.
• Too idealistic.
• Too in your head.
• Too “out there.”

Pause for a moment. Consider this: What if that is not something to fix? What if that is something to honor?

The next time you stand in Mountain Pose or simply stand still in your life, feel your feet on the earth. Steady. Supported. Present. Then lengthen through the crown of your head. Lift into possibility. Into awareness. Into your own inner sky. Both can exist. And when they do, you do not just stand. You rise.

Affirmation

I honor both my roots and my wings.

I am grounded, expansive, and fully aligned in who I am.

Reflection Questions

• Where in your life have you been told you are “too much” or “not enough?” What if that is actually your gift?
• Are you allowing yourself to be both grounded and expansive?
• What would it feel like to trust your inner “sky” just as much as your external reality?
• Where can you root deeper so that you can rise higher?

With gratitude,

Natalie 🦋