The Traditionalist Personality

You have a reverence for ritual, time-honoured systems and practices. You value knowledge and evidence-based information. You are a seeker and yet also love the feeling of going deep into a particular system or tradition in order to understand yourself better. You tend to trust what has come before and love how systems and established pathways give you a feeling of grounding and help to create an internal GPS or map to how you relate and see the world. 

You're a wisdom collector, you love learning and feel the most comfortable when reading and researching topics that interest you. While you love and honour traditions, you are also open-minded and willing to learn new information. You've learned that there are time-honoured insights and ways of being that are still relevant to our modern lives and love integrating them into your daily life and practices. 

People are drawn to your steadiness and wealth of knowledge on different topics and often come to you for advice or insight.

Traditionalist as a yoga teacher

As a yoga teacher, you tend to find teaching fairly easy as you've spent so much time steeped in a particular style or immersed with a teacher. You probably didn't start teaching right away but waited until you felt you had a solid grasp and felt comfortable in your knowledge and experience.

Respect is important to you. Respecting traditions, teachers, and others. You often acknowledge and honour those who have gone before and it's not uncommon to have an altar with photos of beloved people or teachers to you. 

Traditionalists can benefit from gentle and restorative practices as you can tend to get caught up in your head. Using lots of props to support your body and nervous system invites you to move out of over-thinking and allow yourself to be supported and drop into your body. 

Using your Traditionalist powers for good in the world

In a rapidly changing world, with oppressive systems and beliefs being awakened and changed, the role of a traditionalist is to use their innate ability to gather wisdom and information and help rebuild those parts of the systems that are no longer working for humanity while integrating the time-honoured aspects that are still relevant to our modern world. Traditionalists are the bridge that helps to link wisdom to action which inspires change.

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