☀️✨“To let go is to find freedom in the present, to no longer be captive to the past, or the future. When we release the weight we carry, we find peace, we transcend into harmony.”
🍁 Hey friends! Today’s class was my fave! When we are first introduced to yoga, we learn about the asana, the poses, but asana is actually the 3rd of 8 limbs of yoga! There’s so much MORE! We skip right over the first 2 limbs! So, I’ve pressed the rewind button, & started at the beginning, with the 1st limb of yoga: the Yamas, tools for transformation in our lives!
🍂 This week we dove into the 5th Yama, Aparigraha! Non-attachment, letting go! The mind is a time-traveler, either ruminating in the past, or worrying about the future. But the body is always present. When we connect to our body, to our breath, we release ourselves from our own captivity, we let go of past, painful events, maybe a hurtful judgement of us or argument we’ve been coming back to too many times. We let go of anxiety we have about the future, the heaviness, and we find freedom. Freedom is the only condition for happiness. We begin to heal, and transcend into harmony!
🍁We opened with a pranidhana mudra to direct the heavy energy outward, moved into our bellows breath pranayama, self-healed with reiki, and then began to flow in yummy ways, opening our hips, our heart, releasing the negative energy we’ve been carrying, letting it melt toward the earth to be refined for something better! Somatic experiencing stimulated our vagus nerve, the super highway of information being sent from the body to the brain, allowing us to tell our brain & body that it is safe, it doesn’t need to be in fight or flight mode, it can relax. (This practice is our nervous system reset button, so useful in daily life when we’re in a stressful situation!) We alleviated tightness in the chest, released anything painful our heart was holding on to, and regulated our breath & nervous system! This practice is also helpful as Thanksgiving approaches, and maybe we need to let go of a comment or argument we had with a loved one last year, and direct our energy toward healing with that person during this year’s visit. Any practice that helps us move from darkness toward light is good for our soul! We shed the false layers we’ve accumulated: judgement, self-doubt, worry, stress, comparison, unworthiness. Yoga helps us shed what we no longer need, so we may see our most honest selves!
🍂That’s what I LOVE about yoga, it nourishes the body, heals the mind, & renews the soul! What we do on the mat, transforms our life off the mat! It is beautiful!!
🍁Stay tuned for more on how my yoga classes can transform our daily lives!🫶🏻 Next class: Thanksgiving Gratitude!!🍁🤎💛
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