Habitual Rituals
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In today's modern world it is essential to have back pocket ritual for creating and maintaining lifestyle habits. There is no shame in seeking innovative hacks to help keep your sanity and maintain a healthy balance.
Misperception: yoga is for exercise. Reality: yoga is a lifestyle! Hopefully this helps adjust your thinking about having to add yet another time suck to your day. Weaving yoga into your daily living can be as simple as waking up in the morning. Don't believe me? Yoga can even be done in bed, on the floor next to your bed, inside or outside...There are no hard rules. Yoga if a lifestyle that you choose to design. |
GeT On Your Mat
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Hack Your Daily Mat Yoga:
Misperception: I need a special space and the right mat to do yoga. Reality: Yes, you need space however, yoga follows you wherever you go regardless if you have a mat! Maybe your mat for your outdoor practice is grass. |
The World is your studio
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Remember your fascination with discovering your shadow as a kid? Momentarily, as a kid you came to the realization that it's not going everywhere yet at the same time it does 'cuz it follows you. Know that you are yoga. Like your shadow, yoga travels with you. Just as you breathe, yoga is the lifestyle you weave into your daily habits -even how you cultivate your thoughts.
Essentials for Yoga Living: 1. Know that you are yoga, 2. Practice yoga creatively, 3. The world is your yoga studio. |
Flippin' the scripts
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Observe the stories you tell yourself day in, day out so that you may see it from another lens and then another until over time it has completely transformed. Yoga describes the evolution of our actions or deeds, for better or worse - karma.
Let's Practice Flipping Some Scripts Default program: Morning Routine 5:30 am wake up. Tired. Strap in for another work-filled day. Life is coming at me way too fast! Ready, set, what’s the daily check list again? New Thought: 5:30 am wake up. I have a story that my worth is dependent on the value of work I cross off my To Do List each day. Default program: At Home Ok, kids are in bed. Check! The house is a mess. I’m so tired! When does this get easier? Life sucks as a working-parent! New Thought: I am telling myself that my value as a mother and/or wife depends on a clean, perfect home. Default program: Socially Jeez, another event to add to my already jam-packed schedule. What would friends say if I don’t show up? I don’t wanna go to this! New Thought: I am more worried about what others may think than what I need. What’s stopping me from creating healthy boundaries to stop by, RELAX for a bit? Default programs, we’ve all got them. Even if you think you don’t do a little digging into the belief patterns of your own family, peer groups, social circles. It will surface quickly. Once you choose to see your programming you have a choice to decide if it has served its purpose. If so, it’s time for an evolution notice! |
Yoga's Best Kept Sutra
TAPAḤ SVĀDHYĀYA-ĪŚVARA-PRAṆIDHĀNĀNI KRIYĀ-YOGAḤ.
yoga sutra 2.1
Yoga in action is self-awareness, self-transformation, and self-surrender.
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The Yoga Sutras, like most ancient texts before recorded history, has some shroud of debate of who authored or compiled these mystic tweets -196 sutras to be exact! Pantajali is credited as the author of this sacred text 2nd century BCE. Four yoga sutra books (padas) sewn together as a spiritual template for living your fullest potential.
Written as phrased aphorisms or sound bites on the theory and practice of yoga in action, Patanjali cleverly added a perfect sutra describing yoga in action as three skills: self-awareness, self-transformation, and self-surrender. If there ever was a spiritual shortcut, Yoga Sutra 2.1 is the quintessential shortcut for the commoner not destined to live as an ascetic in a cave or ashram. For those of us who participate (act) within the world rather than transcend it, this gem shines light on the blueprint for modern living yoga in all of its complexities. Patanjali's best kept sutra summarizes the recipe for serenity; CliffNotes version of his entire yoga philosophy. Skill 1: Who Am I? Self-awareness svadhyaya Skill 2: CTO Cultivate the Opposite! Self-Transformation tapah Skill 3: Let Sh*t Go! Self-Surrender isvara-pranidhana |