Freedom and feeling are imperfect and messy and juicy and intense and subtle. No matter whether you want to feel goofy or balancing on one limb and still, step into it with a playful, open, willing nature.
This insertion of silence is a crucial part of yoga practice. Turning off the distractions of phones, computers, music, other people’s voices …. Leaves us alone with the inner distractions and chatter. It helps isolate our attention. It helps create an honest and authentic space of practice. It makes it your own.
I’m not gonna lie. It can also drive us crazy! I notice how after a few times through I sequence I can hear my inner voice say, “cool, now you know what would make this better? Let’s play some Beyonce to the sequence next!”
Intention does not replace surrender to truth. Intention should direct us toward it. Intention also isn’t the destination. When the drive becomes the objective we get consumed in constant doing that goes nowhere.
This week’s practice is focused on taking a pause and reflecting. Often in our day-to-day we shuffle through activities and actions like we are swiping right on our phones. Swish, next. Swipe, next. Life has become an assembly line procession of doing and getting and building and acquiring and … it’s incessant, never ending, never
Just B Yoga is pleased to welcome aboard Fiza (pronounced Fizz-uh) Irfan as a new right hand as Program Assistant and assistant to Belinda. Fiza’s credentials and connections to the community are mind-blowing. Their energy and passion are enviable. We are fortunate to have Fiza help us chart our future and serve the community. Fiza
We welcome Jessica Posz as an yoga program assistant. She will be helping with our video production and our yoga programs. She may be answering some of our Facebook posts and messages. She is in yoga teacher training and we know she will be adding good energy to our community. From Jessica: Namaste. I am
Sifu Belinda Thurston will offer free/donation livestream classes on Tuesdays at 9 a.m. (EST).
A 6-week series class will teach the Cheng Man Ch’ing Short Yang form starting Nov. 7, 9 a.m. Saturdays.
We checked in with Caitlin Thompson recently to see how she’s doing during the pandemic. Caitlin is a counselor who serves the disabled population with accessibility issues in the workplace and transportation and more. Since the stay-at-home order she has been working her private practice remotely, but is hardly full of free time. She shared
Lansing Community Walking Meditation starts March 16, 1 p.m. Walk in peace. Walk in gratitude. Walk in reflection. Walk together.
The room was peacefully silent with only the soft inhales and exhales of those sitting around the room. The light from the window was subtle this late-winter morning.
Among those circled around the room for the 9 a.m. Sunday meditation were two tweens who had come with their mom.
“May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I know peace.”
We are blessed with a humble and cozy community of yogis practicing being comfortable in the skin they’re in. We’d love you to share this practice with friends and family with a few special packages just for this season of gratitude and giving! 2-WEEK UNLIMITED INTRO – Give the gift of a Just B Yoga
Peace isn’t a place. It’s not somewhere we go to. It’s not something we practice in a special room or at a special time. Peace isn’t a feeling. It’s not your inner “high.” It’s not a tingle that makes you pleased with yourself. Peace is a time. A time that’s detached from reaction
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