Kindness is a living thing within us. It’s not just an action. Not just our words. Not just in our thoughts and motivations. We are stewards of kindness and its potential.
So what’s coming next? More being and becoming.
More workshops on being. More trainings. More private lessons. More speaking and presenting. More writing about this experience of community outreach yoga and trauma recovery. More of my own practice and hopefully more of your own.
Three groups of students: 18, 16 and 20. Grades 4, 5 and 6. We filed into a gymnasium – floors were not swept and without windows. Everything was different. We were meeting on a different day of the week in a new location and two days after the clocks got changed, shorting them of an
There is no such thing as wasting time. It is one of the greatest falsehoods that have detoured my thinking with shame and fear and insecurity. The concept of wasting time is rooted in the productivity worth culture. If I am not producing I am not worthy and I am wasting time. Your time. Our
invite yourself into your practice invite yourself into your body invite yourself to create a relationship right now with how you are right now just be a body physical human body in harmony with outside and within make yourself an intention, a promise to yourself of how you want to treat yourself keep that front
Yoga with young people can be freeing and wondrous. When allowed to set their own guidelines they tend to choose kindness over cruelty, and joy over judgment. Anything become possible, even headstands!
I’m honored to be spinning around in this cosmic confusion with you all. Each beautiful, sassy, silly, brilliant, intelligent, creative, generous, nerdy, queer, unique one of you.
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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
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